An exhibition marking the 50th anniversary of Henry Dreyfuss’ influential Symbol Sourcebook: An Authoritative Guide to International Graphic Symbols will debut at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum this spring, highlighting the
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York is showing the largest-ever exhibition of works by E. McKnight Kauffer (American, 1890–1954), a pioneer of commercial art the profession known today as graphic design. On view now through April 10, 2022, “Underground Modernist: E. McKnight Kauffer” features more than 150 objects to examine the designer’s impact and legacy across media. Hailed in his lifetime as “the poster king,” Kauffer brought design to many creative industries. He made .
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30 of the Best Art and Design Books of 2020
Got some shelf space?
We hope you have a lot of it. Because the amount of great design books that were published this year is daunting. (Really as I glance to my left, I see a teetering column of hardcovers that’s a Darwin Award in the making.)
But to start: disclaimer time! When we write “The Best Books of 2020,” what we really mean is “our favorite design books that we came across in 2020.”
Though many publications might be hesitant to admit it, lists like this are wildly subjective, and there are no doubt brilliant books that we didn’t come across. But these are the ones we did, and these are the ones we fell in love with this year as we’ve hunkered down in quarantine.