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Leaving on a Jetplane to Aspen | Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Ivan Chermayeff, Aiga Design, Humble Design, Invisible Cities, Cooper Hewitt, Masterpiece Theater, Iconic Poster, Milton Glaser, Conference Design

Ivan Chermayeff’s famous poster uses a system of found typography to represent the gathering of design professionals at the International Design Conference at Aspen. Chermayeff uses luggage tags to represent the array of countries from which the attendees hail. Ellen Lupton is Senior Curator of Contemporary Design at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum and Director of the

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The Cooper Hewitt, image via Wikimedia Commons user Ajay Suresh Schindler House, Millionaires Row, Offshore Wind Farms, Andrew Carnegie, The Gilded Age, Cooper Hewitt, Lenox Hill, Los Angeles International Airport, Offshore Wind

Two design museums are part of a $1.55 slate of grants from the Getty Foundation that was announced by the institution yesterday. New York’s Cooper Hewitt and West Hollywood’s MAK Center for Art and Architecture were among the nineteen grant recipients on a list that included projects at...

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Cover of Henry Dreyfuss' Symbol Sourcebook; Henry Dreyfuss Archive, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 1972-88-1-28; Photo by Matt Flynn; Image © Smithsonian Institution Architects, Otl Aicher, Give Me A Sign, Cooper Hewitt, Language Barrier, Communication Tools, Smithsonian Institution, Design Museum, A Sign

An exhibition marking the 50th anniversary of Henry Dreyfuss’ influential Symbol Sourcebook: An Authoritative Guide to International Graphic Symbols will debut at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum this spring, highlighting the

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Armin Hofmann, International Typographic Style, Graphic Design Style, Cooper Hewitt, Swiss Style, Design Movements, Images And Words, Design Department, Type Posters

Armin Hofmann (Swiss, b. 1920) is associated with a graphic design movement known as the Swiss Style, which originated in Switzerland in the 1940s and 50s. Also referred to as the International Typographic Style, the Swiss Style is characterized by a recognition of the importance of typography—especially sans-serif fonts—as an essential element of design. The

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In 1966, Italian designer Bruno Munari poked fun at the commonplace design solution of putting a big circle in the middle of a poster. In his essay “Posters with a Central Image,” Munari wrote, "“The eye is attracted by the dark disc and has no way of escaping.” He may have had this famous poster

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