Seymour Chwast

Seymour Chwast (born August 18, 1931 in New York City ) is an American graphic designer , illustrator , typographer and teacher .

Life

Chwast studied with Milton Glaser from 1948 to 1951 at the Cooper Union in New York and in 1954 founded the graphic office Push Pin Studios in New York together with Glaser, Reynold Ruffins and Edward Sorel . Chwast was art director of the in-house magazine Push Pin Graphic from 1955 to 1980 and took over the management of Lubalin's studio after the death of designer Herb Lubalin in 1982; now renamed Push Pin Lubalin Peckolik . In 1983 Chwast was inducted into the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame . Since 1985 he has been director of the Push Pin Group . He taught design at the School of Visual Arts and the Cooper Union in New York.

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Seymour Chwast draws with his playful handwriting (he is left-handed ) and his often humorous designs for countless posters , record covers, book and magazine illustrations, etc. a. responsible for Life , the New York Times and Time Magazine . He also designed numerous fonts. Chwast's clients were also Mobil Oil , various paper companies , the Gutenberg Book Guild and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung .

Publications

• The left-handed designer . 1985, ISBN 0810912899
• with Steve Heller : Illustration: A Visual History , Abrams, New York City, NY 2008 ISBN 978-0-8109728-4-1
• Book illustrations for different authors
• In 2010, Chwast adapted and drawn Dante's Divine Comedy as a comic. The German edition was published in 2011: Seymour Chwast: Dante's Divine Comedy, Hell, Purgatory, Paradise . from the English by Reinhard Pietsch, Knesebeck Munich 2011 ISBN 978-3-86873-339-6

Font designs

• Buffalo (1981)

Web links

The Seymour Chwast / Pushpin website (English)