‘The most thorough account of the legendary Push Pin Studios, told through its signature publication, The Push Pin Graphic: A Quarter Century of Innovative Design and Illustration is a visually arresting showcase of the wry, irreverent, and merrily experimental publication. Part design and illustration studio, part pop culture think tank, Push Pin Studios had phenomenal sway over visual culture from the mid 1950s through the 1980s. Its founding principals Seymour Chwast and Milton Glaser, created a graphic design laboratory that mined the traditions of the past to presage the eclecticism of the future, and took design in a bold, new direction.’
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Design Archive Feature, Design Education, Magazines & Publishing, Members Only Content
Across Europe, industry unions and trade journals shaped the professionalisation of graphic design between 1890 and 1930. Journals such as Typografia, Das Plakat, The Penrose Annual and Typographische Jahrbucher.
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Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content, Movements, Typography & Type Design
From Jugend and Ver Sacrum to Penrose Annual, an essay on design movements, shaping modernism, and early graphic design.
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Design Archive Feature, Magazines & Publishing, Members Only Content, Regional Histories
Jazz Journal was first published in 1946 by Sinclair Traill, who also had some of his photographs used on the covers. The magazine is now online but remained in print for several decades, as Britain's longest enduring jazz magazine.
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