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Stephen Harvard Memorial Lecture: Alvin Eisenman '43 & post-WWII graphic design

Douglass Scott, former creative director at WGBH, will deliver this year's lecture on Eisenman's role in the development of the graphic design profession in the post-WWII era.

1/6/2015
4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Baker Library, Current Periodicals Room
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Arts, Exhibitions, Lectures & Seminars

 

The Friends of the Dartmouth College Library cordially invite you to this year's Stephen Harvard Memorial Lecture which features a talk by Douglass Scott on Alvin Eisenman's role in the rise of the modern graphic design profession in the post-WWII era. Scott, a former student and teaching colleague of Eisenman at Yale, is a designer, design educator, and former creative director at WGBH, the PBS affiliate in Boston. Reception will follow in the Main Hall of Baker Library.

This lecture is in conjunction with an exhibition at Baker Library of the design work of Eisenman who was the long-time director of the first graduate program in graphic design in America. The exhibition highlights his design work before and during his career as a design educator at the Yale School of Art for over 40 years. The exhibit runs from December 19, 2014 to March 15, 2015 in the Main Hall of Baker Library.

[Image: Broadside, 17"x 22", designed by Alvin Eisenman as part of the portfolio, Homage to the Book, New York: West Virginia Pulp & Paper Company, 1968. Collection of Rauner Library.]

For more information, contact:
Won K. Chung
won.k.chung@dartmouth.edu
Permanent URL to this event: https://arthistory.dartmouth.edu/events/event?event=32382

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