Rudolph de Harak Graphic Designer: Rational Simplicity - Hardcover

Poulin, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 050002538X ISBN 13: 9780500025383

Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 2022

Synopsis

The first major publication on the life and work of America’s celebrated mid-century modern graphic designer

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About the Author

Richard Poulin is a design consultant, educator, author and artist living in Palm Springs, California. He has based his forty-year career on a generalist approach to graphic, environmental, interior and exhibition design. Since 1986, he has divided his time between professional practice and academia in New York City, as co-founder and design director of Poulin + Morris Inc., and as an adjunct professor at the School of Visual Arts and Cooper Union. Richard has written seven books on design, which have been translated into eight languages.

From the Back Cover

Rudolph de Harak (1924-2002) is one of the most influential graphic designers of the mid-twentieth century. This beautifully produced, comprehensive monograph is devoted to this fascinating and significant figure and provides an in-depth account of de Harak's life and work. From his early years in Los Angeles to his success as a design consultant and educator in New York City, de Harak brought inventiveness to everything he designed, from record covers to book jackets, from furniture to exhibitions. De Harak's work was influenced by early modernist masters, such as Will Burtin, Gyo]rgy Kepes, Alvin Lustig, and Max Bill, as well as by the rigor, simplicity, and rationalism of the International Style, Abstract Expressionism, Op Art, and Pop Art. Organized chronologically into six chapters that cover de Harak's life and career, each supported by sidebars on the designers, architects, and art movements that have influenced his work, Rudolph de Harak Graphic Designer documents de Harak's pioneering and prolific fifty-year career in graphic, experiential, industrial, and furniture design for a wide range of clients, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cummins engine company, McGraw Hill publishing, and many others.

Edition details

• Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 050002538X
• ISBN 13: 9780500025383
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 408