Herb Lubalin

This legendary art director, designer and type designer led the way for others.

This past March the iconic Herb Lubalin would have been 100 years old. To celebrate his centennial birthday Herb Lubalin Study Center launched Lubalin 100, a project directed by Annabel Brandon. The daily celebration featuring one work by the graphic design legend for each of the next 100 days has already garnered worldwide media attention. Per Alexander Tochilovsky, curator of the Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography at The Cooper Union...

Who coined the term graphic design? Who turned film titles into an art? Who pioneered information design? Who was the first female art director of a mass-market American magazine? Who are history’s most influential graphic designers? Oh dear God, so many questions, so litle time. Well, God obviously exists as in his fun, fast-paced introduction to the most iconic designers of our time, author John Clifford takes us on a visual history tour that’s packed...

Lettering and typography, so similar yet so diverse, are a huge part of design and thus deserve our full understanding.

On day 18, the 3rd April 2018, the website Lubalin 100 celebrated the discovery of some long lost PBS logo animations, that were originally animated sometime after 1971, by having all 3 recreated.

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Herb Lubalin was an extremely influential, highly-celebrated, and colorblind master typographer.

Renowned American graphic designer, Herb Lubalin, best known for his collaborations with Ralph Ginzburg on the magazines _Eros, Fact_ and _Avant Garde,_ is regarded as one of the seminal designers of the 20th century. Tomorrow, 17 March 2018, will mark what would have been Lubalin’s 100th birthday. To celebrate the occasion, The Herb Lubalin Study Centre of Design and Typography at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art will launch…

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