Paul Rand Timeline

Timeline

1914 – 1939

1914

• Born Peretz Rosenbaum, August 15, Brooklyn, New York

1929 – 1932

• Education: Pratt Institute, New York
• Education: Harren High School, New York

1932

• Education: Parsons School of Design, New York

1933

• Education: Art Students' League with George Grosz

1934

• Illustrator: Metro Associated Services

1935

• Design Assistant: George Switzer Studio
• Freelance: Glass Packer magazine
• Changes legal name from Peretz Rosenbaum to Paul Rand

1936 – 1941

• Art Director: Apparel Arts and Esquire magazines

1937

• Trademark: Wallace Puppets

1938 – 1945

• Cover Designs: Direction magazine

1938

• Trademark: Esquire magazine

1939

• Instructor: New York Laboratory School
• Design: New York World's Fair brochure, an insert to PM Magazine
• Article: PM Magazine publishes first article about work

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1940s

1941

• Exhibition: Katherine Kuh Gallery, Chicago
• Article: AD Magazine, written by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
• Trademark: Coronet Brandy

1941 – 1955

• Art Director: William H. Weintraub Advertising Agency. Clients include: 
  - Coronet Brandy 
  - El Producto Cigar Company 
  - Disney Hats 
  - Dubonnet 
  - Stafford Fabrics 
  - Ohrbach's Department Store 
  - Dunhill Clothiers 
  - Kaufman Department Store 
  - Olivetti 
  - Architectural Forum

1942

• Instructor: The Cooper Union, New York
• Advertising: Stafford Fabrics
• Advertising: Ohrbach's Department Store
• Advertising: Kaufman Department Store

1943

• Advertising: Architectural Forum
• Trademark: Cresta Blanca Wine Company

1944

• First Book Jacket: The Cubist Painters by Guillaume Apollinaire
• Trademark: Helbros Watch Company
• Design: Perfume bottle made with crystal and gold wire

1945

• First Book Design: The Tables of the Law by Thomas Mann
• Trademark: redesigns Borzoi Books
• Trademark: Smith, Kline and French Laboratories
• Begins designs for Architectural Forum

1946

• Instructor: Pratt Institute, New York
• Advertising: Ohrbach's
• Advertising: Great Ideas of Western Man for Container Corporation of America
• Advertising: Disney Hats (1946–1949)

1947

• Author: Thoughts on Design
• Exhibition: Composing Room, New York
• Exhibition: National Museum, Stockholm
• Advertising: Kaufman Department Store
• Trademark: Robeson Cutlery Company, Shur Edge

1948

• Exhibition: Philadelphia Museum of Art
• Design: portfolio pairing writers and artists on the subject "Women for the Museum of Modern Art"
• Commissions modernist architect Marcel Breuer to design a bungalow in Woodstock, NY, but the project is never realized.

1949

• Design: "The House in the Museum Garden" poster for Museum of Modern Art
• Design: cover for "Modern Art in Your Life"
• Design: catalog for the Arensberg Collection for the Art Institute of Chicago
• Trademark: Theatrical Architectural Television
• Commissions Marcel Breuer to design modernist house in Harrison, NY. They part ways during early construction stages.

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1950s

1950

• Design: "No Way Out" movie poster

1951

• Designs Weston, CT house

1952 – 1957

• Advertising: El Producto, GHP Cigar Company

1953

• Design: "Perspectives" covers
• Award: House design voted one of ten best in America

1954

• Exhibition: Contemporary Art Museum, Boston
• Award: Voted one of the Ten Best Art Directors by New York Art Directors Club
• Honorary Degree: Tama University, Tokyo
• Design: RCA morse code advertisement
• Design: Interfaith Day Movement posters

1955

• Design: Book covers for Vintage Book and Random House publishers
• Design: Magazine cover for "Idea", a Japanese visual arts magazine

1956 – 1991

• Consultant: International Business Machines Corporation (IBM)

1956 – 1969

• Professor: Yale University, New Haven, CT

1956

• Illustator: I Know a Lot of Things
• Trademark: IBM
• Design: begins designing book covers for Bollingren Series and Pantheon Books

1957

• Illustrator: Sparkle and Spin

1958

• Exhibition: AIGA Gallery, New York
• Exhibition: Art Directors' Club of Tokyo
• Design: Book cover for H.L. Mencken's "Prejudices: A Selection"
• Honorary Degree: Tama University, Tokyo

1959 – 1981

• Consultant: Westinghouse Electric Corporation

1959

• Trademark: Colorforms
• Trademark: Consolidated Cigar Corporation
• Design: Book and book jacket for "Paul Rand: His Works from 1946 to 1958"

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1960s

1960

• Trademark: Westinghouse
• Author: Trademarks of Paul Rand
• Exhibition: Pratt Institute, New York

1961 – 1996

• Consultant: Cummins Engine Company

1961

• Trademark: United Parcel Service (UPS)

1962

• Trademark: American Broadcasting Company (ABC)
• Trademark: IBM 8-bar & 13-bar variations
• Trademark: Cummins Engine Company
• Illustrator: Little 1
• Citation: Philadelphia College of Art

1963

• Design: "desi8n 63" poster for New York Art Directors Club

1964

• Exhibition: Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh
• Exhibition: School of Visual Arts, New York
• Exhibition: Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
• Trademark: Atlas Crankshaft
• Trademark: IIT Research Institute

1965

• Author: Design and the Play Instinct

1966

• Award: AIGA Gold Medal
• Trademark: Ford Motor Company logo re-design proposal

1967

• Design: DADA book jacket

1968

• Exhibition: Temple University, Philadelphia
• Trademark: U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau for Indian Affairs
• Design: Catalog cover and poste for AIGA (green foreground, clown face)
• Design: Redesigns Westinghouse packaging

1969

• Exhibition: Louisiana Arts and Sciences Center, Baton Rouge

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1970s

1970

• Exhibition: IBM Gallery, New York
• Exhibition: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
• Illustrator: Listen! Listen!
• Design: IBM computer packaging

1972

• Award: New York Art Directors Club Hall of Fame

1973

• Award: Royal Designer for Industry, Royal Society, London
• Trademark: Columbus Indiana Visitors' Center

1974 – 1993

• Professor: Yale University, New Haven, CT
• Honorary Degree: Philadelphia College of Art
• Exhibition: 107 Grafici del AGI, Castello Sforzesco, Milan

1975

• Design: Minute Man poster for U.S. Department of the Interior

1977 – 1993

• Professor: Summer Design Program, Yale University and Brissago, Switzerland

1977

• Exhibition: Wichita State University, Wichita, KS
• Exhibition: Pratt Institute, New York

1979

• Exhibition: Philadelphia College of Art
• Honorary Degree: Philadelphia College of Art

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1980s

1980

• Trademark: Tipton Lakes Corporation
• Design: IBM poster on conversation

1981

• Design: Eye-Bee-M poster
• Interview: AIGA Executive Director Carolyn Hightower for the Design Archive project

1982

• Exhibition: Reinhold Brown Gallery, New York
• Design: Cover for Annual of the AIGA Graphic Design USA 3
• Trademark: AIGA (not used)

1983

• Design: Poster for the Art Director's Club Hall of Fame Awards

1984

• Exhibition: International Typeface Corporation Gallery, New York
• Author: A Paul Rand Miscellany, Design Quarterly
• Award: Type Director's Club Medal

1985

• Author: Paul Rand: A Designer's Art
• President's Fellow: Rhode Island School of Design
• Honorary Degree: Pasons School of Design
• Honorary Degree: Yale University
• Trademark: Yale University Press

1986

• Trademark: NeXT
• Trademark: Connecticut Art Directors Club
• Exhibition: Pratt Institute, New York
• Exhibition: the Design Gallery, Matsuya Ginza, Tokyo

1987

• Honorary Degree: University of Hartford, Connecticut
• Honorary Degree: Kutztown University, Pennsylvania
• Exhibition: Universita Internazionale Dell' Arte, Florence, Italy
• Award: Florence Prize for Visual Communication
• Trademark: Mossberg & Company
• Trademark: PDR (Pastore DePamphilis Rampone)

1988

• Honorary Degree: School of Visual Arts, New York
• Exhibition: School of Visual Arts Masters Series, New York
• Trademark: The Limited (not used)

1989

• Trademark: Monell Chemical Senses Center

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1990s

1990

• Trademark: Irwin Financial Corporation
• Trademark and Design: Benjamin Franklin 200th Anniversary Celebration
• Exhibition: Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, Connecticut

1991

• Trademark: Morningstar Investment Advisers
• Trademark: Okasan Securities Company
• Trademark: IDEO

1992

• Exhibition: Ginza Graphic Gallery, Tokyo

1993 – 1996

• Professor Emeritus: Yale University, New Haven, CT

1993

• Trademark: English First
• Trademark: Gentry Living Color
• Author: Design, Form, and Chaos

1994

• Trademark: Accent Software International
• Trademark: Creative Media Center

1995

• Trademark: USSB
• Trademark: Computer Impressions
• Trademark: XGA for IBM
• Conducts student critiques and delivers lecture at the Arizona State University

1996

• Trademark: Norwalk Cancer Center
• Trademark: Enron
• Trademark: Doug Evans + Partners
• Trademark: Servador
• Author: From Lascaux to Brooklyn
• Honorary Degree: Pratt Institute, New York
• Exhibition and lecture: The Cooper Union, New York
• Lecture: final public appearance at MIT on November 14th
• Design: Cummins Engine 1996 Annual Report
• Died November 26 in Norwalk, CT

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Posthumous

2007

• Exhibition: 18th International Poster and Graphic Arts Festival of Chaumont (5/12 – 6/24), Paris France
• Exhibition: Masters of Graphic Design: UCLA Extension Catalog Covers
  (6/7 – 8/31), West Hollywood, CA
• Award: One Club Hall of Fame inductee (10/17)

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