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Read MoreHere’s a little treat from the archives. This playful illustration by Seymour Chwast ran in a 1970 ad for Strathmore paper.
Little Miss Muffet is eating her curds with whey when along came a spider and sat down beside her but it looks like she didn’t run away. The ad focuses on “Irrational Fears” including arachnophobia but I’m not sure I agree that a fear of spiders is so irrational. The idea behind the campaign was to dispel irrational fears like the cost of the paper and trying “techniques that many designers are afraid to get off their tuffets and try.”
Read MoreIn 1974 top designers and communicators opened up their studios and company doors. Here is a unique peek at the inner “workings” of George Lois, Herb Lubalin and Art Kane, among other notable contemporaries.
George Lois‘ Office. Lois was named the Most Influential Art Director of the Past 50 Years by GDUSA readers.
Read MoreOfficial Art Directors’ Signals
Art Directors Club of New Jersey Fifteenth Annual Show
(Detail of 1977 Call for Entries Advertisement)
Top Row: Flush Left, Flush Right, Justify, Bleed
Bottom Row: Client Loves It – You Hate It!, Client Loves It – You Love It!,
Nobody Likes It!, You Win An Award!
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