Paul Rand (1914–1996)

Author of A Designer’s Art

12+ Works 441 Members 2 Reviews

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Works by Paul Rand

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A Designer’s Art (1985) 159 copies, 1 review

Thoughts on Design (1970) — Author — 140 copies, 1 review

Design, Form, and Chaos (1993) 68 copies

From Lascaux to Brooklyn (1996) 58 copies

A Paul Rand Miscellany (Design Quarterly 123) (1984) 3 copies

Paul Rand, his work from 1946 to 1958 3 copies

Paul Rand: a designer's words (1998) 3 copies

Special issue on Paul Rand 2 copies

IBM Graphic Design Guide Reissue (2018) 2 copies

Type talks 1 copy

Some thoughts... and some tribulations about the design of a logo 1 copy

A Signature for Morningstar 1 copy

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Associated Works

Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories (1959) — Cover designer, some editions — 3,180 copies, 50 reviews

Exile and the Kingdom (1957) — Cover designer, some editions — 2,897 copies, 26 reviews

One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society (1964) — Cover designer, some editions — 2,274 copies, 22 reviews

The Future of an Illusion (1927) — Cover designer, some editions — 1,780 copies, 14 reviews

The Captive Mind (1953) — Cover designer, some editions — 1,299 copies, 16 reviews

Zen and Japanese Culture (1938) — Cover designer, some editions — 715 copies, 6 reviews

The Anatomy of Revolution (1938) — Cover designer, some editions — 567 copies, 7 reviews

The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry (1947) — Cover designer, some editions — 526 copies, 6 reviews

i--six nonlectures (1953) — Cover designer, some editions — 440 copies, 2 reviews

Traps (1956) — Cover designer, some editions — 403 copies, 14 reviews

The Condemned of Altona (1959) — Cover designer, some editions — 334 copies, 5 reviews

The Transposed Heads: A Legend of India (1940) — Cover designer, some editions — 325 copies, 5 reviews

The Possessed (1959) — Cover designer, some editions — 307 copies, 4 reviews

Prejudices: A Selection (1958) — Cover designer, some editions — 273 copies, 4 reviews

History of Russian Literature (1926) — Cover designer, some editions — 272 copies, 2 reviews

Great Issues in American History, Volume II: From the Revolution to the Civil War, 1765-1865 (1969) — Cover designer, some editions — 271 copies

The Social History of Art, v. 2: Renaissance, mannerism, baroque (1951) — Cover designer, some editions — 211 copies, 1 review

The Social History of Art, v.3: Rococo, classicism and romanticism (1951) — Cover designer, some editions — 203 copies, 1 review

The Social History of Art, v. 1: From prehistoric times to the Middle Ages (1951) — Cover designer, some editions — 201 copies, 2 reviews

The Acquisitive Society (1920) — Cover designer, some editions — 191 copies, 3 reviews

Soviet Marxism: A Critical Analysis (1958) — Cover artist, some editions — 180 copies, 2 reviews

The American Democrat; or, hints on the social and civic relations of the United States of America (1838) — Cover designer, some editions — 167 copies, 4 reviews

The Fervent Years: The Group Theatre And The Thirties (Da Capo Paperback) (1975) — Cover designer, some editions — 103 copies

Of Time, Work, and Leisure (1962) — Cover designer, some editions — 98 copies

Love against hate (1942) — Cover designer, some editions — 95 copies

Forces in modern British literature, 1885-1956 (1970) — Cover designer, some editions — 45 copies

The American Essays of Henry James (1990) — Cover designer, some editions — 43 copies

The Second Man (1956) — Cover designer, some editions — 42 copies, 3 reviews

Design Culture: An Anthology of Writing from the AIGA Journal of Graphic Design (1997) — Contributor — 42 copies

The living symbol; a case study in the process of individuation (1961) — Cover designer, some editions — 37 copies

Great Issues In American History: A Documentary Record, Volume 2: 1864-1957 (1958) — Cover designer, some editions — 31 copies

Modern Houses of the World (1964) — Cover designer — 29 copies

Wake Up, Stupid (1959) — Cover designer, some editions — 23 copies

Leave cancelled (1945) — Cover designer, some editions — 17 copies

Origins of modern sculpture (2012) — Cover designer — 6 copies

Baseline 27, 1999 (1999) — Cover artist — 2 copies

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Canonical name: Rand, Paul
Legal name: Rosenbaum, Peretz
Birthdate: 1914-08-15
Date of death: 1996-11-26
Gender: male
Nationality: USA
Education: Pratt Institute
Art Students League of New York
Occupations: graphic designer
teacher
painter
author
Organizations: Yale University (teacher)

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Thoughts on Design by Paul Rand

It's full of lovely examples but doesn't really dip too deep in the philosophical details. That's probably an expectation of mine rather than a shortcoming, but for all the discussions of symbols and signs there's very little on Saussure or Pierce. Beautiful art though.

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jtth | May 4, 2020 |