Chermayeff and Geismar

Recent articles about Chermayeff and Geismar

Design history disciplined

Issue 85, Spring 2013

Review

What kind of discipline is graphic design history? Catherine de Smet provided one answer in…

Symbols and survival

Issue 81, Autumn 2011

Feature

In their forthcoming book, the partners tell some of the stories behind their work for clients such as Chase Manhattan, Mobil, Pan Am, Time Warner and the Smithsonian

Flight of the imagination

Issue 73, Autumn 2009

Feature

Do Ivan Chermayeff’s uncompromising posters signify the last days of Modernist ambition?

A talent that linked Modernism with life

Issue 58, Winter 2005

Review

Graphic design is a formless discipline. Functioning at the nexus point of so many traditions…

Reputations: Bob Gill

Issue 33, Autumn 1999

Feature

‘I’ve never had a problem with a dumb client. There’s no such thing as a bad client. Part of our job is to do good work and get the client to accept it.’ Interview by Patrick Baglee

Pre-postmodernity

Issue 50, Winter 2003

Feature

Does a small book from nearly 30 years ago encapsulate a ‘golden age’?

Word art

Issue 11, Winter 1993

Feature

In post-war art the visual and the literary have blurred. Typography is the point at which they meet

BJ

Issue 4, Summer 1991

Feature

Robert Brownjohn wanted to eliminate the boundaries between experience and design. In an explosively short career of remarkable promise, he pushed graphics, advertising and film to their conceptual limits

Recent blog posts about Chermayeff and Geismar

Books received #18

11 April 2016
Book design, Graphic design, Photography, Visual culture

A Smile in the Mind, London A to Z, Jean Tinguely, Bad Bonn Song Book and Eating With The Eyes
Here are a few books that caught our attention in recent weeks … all reviewed…

Noted #60

16 May 2014
Awards madness, Graphic design, Illustration, Magazines, Posters, Typography, Visual culture

Maya pictoglyphs, Comics Unmasked, The Believer film issue with John and Faith Hubley, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards, Chermayeff & Geismar, Office
Here are some links to a few exhibitions, books and magazines that caught our attention…