History of Graphic Design/ Visual Arts

  • Simon and Schuster, Inc.

    Simon and Schuster, Inc.
    Founded in New York. It is one of four largest English-language publishers and publishing houses alongside Randon House, Penguin and Harper Collins.
  • William Addison Dwiggins

    William Addison Dwiggins
    An American type designer, calligrapher, and book designer. In Boston, 1926 he was coined with the term graphic designer. The term did not reach widespread usage until after the second war.
  • MIT Press

    MIT Press
    MIT in Cambridge Mass. MIT published under its own name a lecture series.
  • The museum of Modern Art

    The museum of Modern Art
    Located in Midtown Manhatten New York.
  • Kyle Cooper

    Kyle Cooper
    Born in Salem Mass. was an American designer of motion picture title sequences.
  • Georg Olden

    Georg Olden
    In 1963 he designed a postage stamp for the United states Postal service comemorating the centenial of the declaration of the Emancipation Proclomation, the first African-American to do so.
  • Visual Communications

    Visual Communications
    Founded by Robert A. Nakamura in Los Angeles
  • Le Matin de Paris

    Le Matin de Paris
    A french newspaper founded by Claude Perdriel and disappeared in 1987.
  • Milton Glaser

    Milton Glaser
    Milton Glaser is one of the worlds most celebrated graphic designers. His most famous work was the logo he created tourism in the city of New York. Glaser was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Obama in 2009.
  • "French Fries"

    "French Fries"
    By Dennis Bernstein and Warren Lehrer.