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 founded in 1954 together with Glaser and Reynold Ruffins and Edward Sorel graphical Office Push Pin Studios in New York. Chwast was art director from 1955-1980 the in-house magazine Push Pin Graphic and takes over after the death of the designer Herb Lubalin 1982, the line of Lubalin's Studio; now renamed Push Pin Lubalin Peckolik. 1983 Chwast will be inducted into the Hall of Fame by the Art Directors Club. Since 1985 he has been director of the Push Pin Group. He has taught design at the School of Visual Arts and at Cooper Union in New York.

Work

Seymour Chwast draws with his playful handwriting ( he is left-handed ) and his often humorous designs on countless posters, record covers book and magazine illustrations, including for Life, the New York Times and Time magazine responsible. He also designed numerous fonts. Chwasts clients were also Mobil Oil, various firms, the books Gutenberg or the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

Publications

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

Font designs

• Buffalo ( 1981)