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Designers

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: People who create artistic drawings and plans for the construction or creation of something according to aesthetic or functional criteria; those who create plans or concepts for subsequent implementation of graphic works, objects, structures, systems, or conceptual schemes.

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Emil Antonucci graphic design papers

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0108-01
Summary Emil Antonucci (1929-2006) was a New York-based artist, graphic artist, book designer, illustrator, publisher, and teacher. This collection contains artwork and design project materials relating to his freelance design and artistic career. Dating from the 1950s through the 2000s, materials in the collection include original artwork; design proofs and layouts; book and magazine interiors, illustrations, mechanicals, and Antonucci's writings. Included in this collection are items...
Dates: 1950 - 2005; Majority of material found within 1960 - 1980

Giuseppe Zambonini papers

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0130-01
Summary Giuseppe Zambonini (1942-1990) was an Italian-born and New York-based architect, interior designer, theater director, and teacher. This collection contains materials pertaining to Zambonini’s architectural and design career, as well as items related to his tenure as dean of the New York School of Interior Design, founder and head of the Open Atelier of Design, and director of the architecture program at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dating primarily from the 1960s through...
Dates: 1949 - 2013

Jeremiah B. Lighter graphic design work

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0009-01
Summary Jeremiah B. Lighter (1921-2013) was a New York-based artist, printmaker, graphic designer, typographer, illustrator, and teacher. This collection contains artwork and design project materials relating to his professional and personal artistic career. Dating primarily from the mid-1950s through the 1980s, materials include woodblocks and prints, original artwork and proofs of Lighter's book and album cover design projects, and advertisements. The collection also includes examples...
Dates: 1923 - 2013

New School Communications and External Affairs records

 Record Group
Identifier: NS-03-01-04
Abstract This record group documents the activities of the New School's Communications and External Affairs (CEA) office, one of the university's largest administrative units. CEA was the successor administrative unit to the New School Publicity Office, and the New School Communications Office, respectively. The bulk of materials here date from the late 1990s through 2013, and includes digital photographs, printed publicity samples, posters, and project files consisting of analog and digital records...
Dates: circa 1930-2013; Majority of material found within 1980s-2000s

Parsons School of Design Advanced Research Seminar student manifestoes

 Collection
Identifier: PC-02-10-01
Summary

Collection consists of student projects created as a final assignment for Professor Esther Choi's Advanced Research Seminar: Constructed Environments during the fall 2016 semester. All students were undergraduates in The New School's Parsons School of Design, primarily in architecture, interior design, and product design programs. The projects take the form of design manifestoes, combining text, images, and different forms of presentation.

Dates: 2016 December

Parsons School of Design Dean's Office oral history project

 Collection
Identifier: PC-07-01-03
Summary

This collection consists of audio interviews with alumni of Parsons School of Design recorded between 2013 and 2015. Interviewees include James Drake, Nancye Green, Michael Donovan, Marc Jacobs, Dee McDonald-Miller, and Kay Unger. Interviewers include Executive Dean of Parsons Joel Towers and The New School Archives Director Wendy Scheir. The interviews are retained as digital files.

Dates: 2013-2015

Parsons School of Design oral history program

 Collection
Identifier: PC-07-01-02
Abstract

This ongoing oral history program documents the lives and work of designers, artists, and others active in the fields of art and design. Interviewees include Parsons School of Design alumni, faculty, and professionals without a direct Parsons connection.

Dates: 1994; Majority of material found within 2010 - 2019

Robert Rabinovitz design papers

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0103-01
Summary

Collection documents designer, artist and Parsons School of Design teacher Robert Rabinovitz's projects from his undergraduate education at Philadelphia College of Art through his first New York collection, Spring + Crosby, and a series of poetry books produced in collaboration with students. Includes portfolios, plans and drawings, and book dummies, embodying various stages in the design process.

Dates: 1978-2015