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Arnold Saks

Interiors, January 1959

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Arnold Saks
Arnold Saks was born in New York City in 1931 and studied at Syracuse University and the Yale School of Design. He worked across logo designs, corporate identity programs, manuals, financial statements and publications, packaging, graphic structures and architecture, and exhibition design. With clients including Champion International, The Chase Manhattan Corporation, Colt Industries, Eastern Air Lines, IBM, General Electric, General Motors, The Jewish Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Explore related designers including Paul Rand and Ivan Chermayeff. See also Rise of Corporate Identity and 1960s graphic design history.
Interiors + Industrial Design
Interiors + Industrial Design magazine was published by Whitney Publications. It was launched in 1888 as The Upholsterer, becoming Interiors in 1940 and later became Interiors + Industrial Design.

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Interiors, January 1959. Cover design by Arnold Saks
Interiors, January 1959. Cover design by Arnold Saks
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