Lester Beall (1903-1969) was a key contributor to the modern movement in American graphic design. This collection provides exhaustive documentation of the life and work of this important pioneer, who ...

Beall (1903-1969), was a New York-based modernist graphic designer who won the commission for the stamp design. Mr. Walter commended the design as follows: “Currently the Post Office Department ...

Discover a formative era in Canadian design history through the Canada Modern collection, an archive of Canadian modernist graphic design from the years 1960-85. On display for the first time is a ...

Rural Electrification Administration, 1939 “We don’t get great Modernism in graphic design en masse until after the war. That’s not to say that there aren’t strains of Modernism prior to World War II, ...

When I was studying], graphic design didn't exist, so I had a very broad education ... The resulting collection is modernist in spirit and offers a new approach to textile design for the British ...