Paul Rand | People | Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Paul Rand was born in New York City and studied at Pratt Institute, the Art Student's League and Parsons School of Design. While at the League he studied with George Grosz. Author of "Thoughts on Design," an influential book of design practices published in 1946, Rand incorporates collage and montage techniques to create a dynamic visual / verbal communications vocabulary. Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky provided a starting point for Rand who adapted formal qualities from their Modernist paintings to his graphic designs. Rand was the art director of Esquire and Apparel Arts magazines from 1937 to 1941 and director of the William H. Weintraub advertising agency where he worked in collaboration with Bill... more.

We have 104 objects that Paul Rand has been involved with.

Print, Yale University, School of Art Graduate Program: 1989-1990

Poster, Yale University School of Art Graduate Program: 1991-1992

Paul Rand has collaborated with
Micarta and
Yale Urban Design Workshop/Yale School of Architecture and
L. Anton Maix, Inc. and
University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and
National Park Service and
Tokyo Communication Arts and
Osaka Communication Arts and
International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) and
American Institute of Graphic Arts and
Yale University School of Art
and 4 others.

Short URL: http://cprhw.tt/p/2AtmR/
Person ID: 18042341
Tag as: ch:person=18042341