Comments on: Clarence Lee IBM poster design http://grainedit.com/2008/03/04/clarence-lee-ibm-poster/ modern graphic design inspiration blog + vintage graphics resource Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:17:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Clarence Lee http://grainedit.com/2008/03/04/clarence-lee-ibm-poster/#comment-5512 Clarence Lee Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:11:53 +0000 http://grainedit.com/2008/03/04/clarence-lee-ibm-poster/#comment-5512 Paul Rand was a teacher at Yale University and also a consultant at IBM. This poster was done in the l970's, the model was a pretty well-known designer/photographer name of Bill Farrell, who resides in NYC. I was able to visit Charles Eames In California when I was working on the NY Worlds Fair. I was influenced in this spacial design by Herbert Matter, who I was so enamored with. His Swiss Air posters were classics in his day. Thank you for including this in your poster designs. Aloha. From Honolulu, Hawaii....Clarence Lee. Paul Rand was a teacher at Yale University and also a consultant at
IBM.

This poster was done in the l970’s, the model was a pretty well-known
designer/photographer name of Bill Farrell, who resides in NYC.

I was able to visit Charles Eames In California when I was working on
the NY Worlds Fair. I was influenced in this spacial design by Herbert Matter,
who I was so enamored with. His Swiss Air posters were classics in
his day.

Thank you for including this in your poster designs.

Aloha. From Honolulu, Hawaii….Clarence Lee.

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]]> By: marcelodecarli http://grainedit.com/2008/03/04/clarence-lee-ibm-poster/#comment-1158 marcelodecarli Sun, 04 May 2008 17:22:58 +0000 http://grainedit.com/2008/03/04/clarence-lee-ibm-poster/#comment-1158 wonderful wonderful

]]> By: Barry A. Smith http://grainedit.com/2008/03/04/clarence-lee-ibm-poster/#comment-539 Barry A. Smith Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:04:13 +0000 http://grainedit.com/2008/03/04/clarence-lee-ibm-poster/#comment-539 That poster is wonderful. The design and the color palette both seem to be forward thinking for the 60's. The typography seems similar to the work Aprel Gremanwas doing 20 years later in the 80's. On the subject of Uber talents, I recently bought 4 1960's and 70's IBM Annual Reports, all designed by Rand. I was surprised by how these appear very un-Rand. Maybe even un-designed. Or atleast un-what I expected. I pictured them to be as inspiring and non conventional as this Clarence Lee poster on the insides, but they aren't. Makes me wonder what percentage of the work great design masters (or any decent designer) does that is just average. My portfolio is not all as beautiful throughout as are a few choice selections. However I was a bit disspointed by these IBM annuals, because it seems like at the time, Rand was teling the story of a new and changing business and technology environment, naking me think he would have been even more inspired. Thanks for sharing this great poster. That poster is wonderful. The design and the color palette both seem to be forward thinking for the 60’s. The typography seems similar to the work Aprel Gremanwas doing 20 years later in the 80’s.

On the subject of Uber talents, I recently bought 4 1960’s and 70’s IBM Annual Reports, all designed by Rand. I was surprised by how these appear very un-Rand. Maybe even un-designed. Or atleast un-what I expected. I pictured them to be as inspiring and non conventional as this Clarence Lee poster on the insides, but they aren’t. Makes me wonder what percentage of the work great design masters (or any decent designer) does that is just average. My portfolio is not all as beautiful throughout as are a few choice selections. However I was a bit disspointed by these IBM annuals, because it seems like at the time, Rand was teling the story of a new and changing business and technology environment, naking me think he would have been even more inspired.

Thanks for sharing this great poster.

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