Showing posts with label Push Pin Studio. Show all posts
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Monday, March 21, 2022

Typography: Monocle

Volume 4, Number 1, Summer Fall 1960
Display type by the Morgan Press
Art Editors: Lou Klein, Phil Gips





















 
Volume 5, Number 2, Summer-Fall 1963
Display type by the Morgan Press
Art by R.O. Blechman, Bill Charmatz, Marshall 
Arisman, Ed Sorel, Paul Davis, Louis Klein, Chas. 
B. Slackman, Lou Myers, Robert Grossman, Dave 
Levine, Dick Danne, Lionel Kalish, Phil Gips
































 
Volume 5, Number 3, Winter 1963–1964
Display type by the Morgan Press
Art by Bob Gill, Chas. B. Slackman, Philip Gips, 
Louis P. Klein, David Levine, Elton Robinson, 
Milton Glaser, Enos, Seymour Chwast, Tomi 
Ungerer, Lou Myers, Paul Davis




































 
Volume 5, Number 3, Spring 1964
Display type by the Morgan Press
Art by Sam Antupit, Paul Davis, Lou Myers, Tomi 
Ungerer, Chas. B. Slackman, Robert Grossman, R. O. 
Blechman, Jim McMullan, David November, 
Seymour Chwast, John Alcorn


































 
Volume 6, Number 1, Summer 1964
Display type by the Morgan Press
Art by Dick Danne, Philip Gips, Ed Sorel, Randall 
Enos, Luis Camnitzer, Reynold Ruffins, Sims Taback, 
Paul Davis, Robert Grossman, Isadore Seltzer, Tomi 
Ungerer, Seymour Chwast, Milton Glaser






































 
Volume 6, Number 2, Fall 1964
Art by Push Pin Studios


































 
Further Reading
Design Observer: The Other Monocle
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Monday, July 20, 2020

Alphabets: Push Pin Studio in the Alphabet Thesaurus, Volume 3

Alphabet Thesaurus, Volume 3
Photo-Lettering, Inc.
Alphabet designer credits are from the index.

Page 120: Blimp
by Seymour Chwast
Seymour Chwast: The Left-Handed Designer (1985), page 132: Chwast said Blimp was based on a wood type font.

















Page 396: Push Pin Art Deco
by Milton Glaser and Seymour Chwast













Page 400: Filmsense
by Milton Glaser and Seymour Chwast
Seymour Chwast: The Left-Handed Designer (1985), page 132: Chwast said Filmsense was the logo for the studio’s film division, and based on Glaser’s letterhead for the studio.















Page 409: Baby Teeth
Milton Glaser Graphic Design (1973), page 164: Glaser said the inspiration for Baby Teeth was a tailor’s sign in Mexico City.

















































Pages 414 and 415: Babyfat
Milton Glaser Graphic Design (1973), page 160: Glaser said Babyfat was his first alphabet design.








































Pages 420 and 421: Eightway
by Milton Glaser and George B. Leavitt



















































Page 422: Houdini
by Milton Glaser and Seymour Chwast
Milton Glaser Graphic Design (1973), page 166: Glaser said he wanted to create a letterform that gradually disappeared as a line was removed.



























Page 423: Push Pin Myopic
by Milton Glaser and Seymour Chwast
Seymour Chwast: The Left-Handed Designer (1985), page 132: Chwast said the alphabet could have an infinite number of drop shadows.


















































Page 431: Artone
by Seymour Chwast
Seymour Chwast: The Left-Handed Designer (1985), page 132: Chwast said Artone began as a trademark, a lowercase A (below, lid and front of box for 32 ounce bottle). Then he developed an alphabet based on Art Nouveau.





































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