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  • Written & Designed by Paul Rand


    This…Is the Stafford Stallion

    NYC: Goodman and Thiese
    (1944)

    Thoughts on Design

    Wittenborn & Company
    (1947)

    Trademark Design

    Paul Theobold & Company
    (1951, unpublished)

    I Know a Lot of Things

    Harcourt, Brace & World
    (1956)

    Sparkle and Spin

    Harcourt, Brace & World
    (1957)

    The Trademarks of Paul Rand — A Selection

    George Wittenborn, Inc.
    (1960)

    Little 1

    Harcourt, Brace & World
    (1962)

    Listen! Listen!

    Harcourt, Brace & World
    (1970)

    A Paul Rand Miscellany

    Design Quarterly
    (1984)

    A Designer’s Art

    Yale University Press
    (1985)

    Good Design is Good Will

    Yale University Press
    (1987)

    Some Thoughts Some Logos

    Promotional pamphlet
    (1991)

    Some Thoughts… and Some Tribulations about the Design of a Logo

    Promotional pamphlet
    (1991)

    From Cassandre to Chaos

    Promotional pamphlet
    (1992)

    Failure by Design

    Designers and Art Directors' Association
    (1993)

    Design Form and Chaos

    Yale University Press
    (1993)

    From Lascaux to Brooklyn

    Yale University Press
    (1996)


  • Contributed to or Designed by Paul Rand


    The Cubist Painters: Aesthetic Meditations 1913

    Guillaume Apollinaire Cover & typography by Rand
    (1944)

    Form and Sense

    Wolfgang Paalen Cover & typography by Rand
    (1945)

    Plastic Art and Pure Plastic Art

    Piet Mondrian Cover & typography by Rand
    (1945)

    The Grass Roots of Art

    Herbert Read Cover & typography by Rand
    (1946)

    The Stork Club Bar Book

    Lucius Beebe Cover & typography by Rand
    (1946)
    (13 images)

    The New Vision and Abstract of an Artist

    Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Cover & typography by Rand
    (1946)

    Concerning the Spiritual in Art

    Wassily Kandinsky Cover & typography by Rand
    (1947)

    Kindergarten Chats & Other Writings

    Louis H. Sullivan Cover & typography by Rand
    (1947)

    Possibilities 1, Problems of Contemporary Art

    Guillaume Apollinaire Cover & typography by Rand
    (1947)

    Beyond Painting and Other Writings By the Artist and His Friends

    Max Ernst Cover & typography by Rand
    (1948)

    Book Jacket Designers Guild, First Exhibition

    AD Gallery
    (1948)
    (37 images)

    Life of Forms in Art

    Henri Focillon Cover & typography by Rand
    (1948)
    (8 images)

    On My Way

    Jean Arp Cover & typography by Rand
    (1948)

    Women: A Collaboration of Artists and Writers

    Museum of Modern Art Cover & typography by Rand
    (1948)
    (44 images)

    Paul Klee: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

    Museum Of Modern Art Cover & typography by Rand
    (1949)

    20th Century Art, Arensberg Collection

    Art Institute of Chicago Cover & typography by Rand
    (1949)
    (2 images)

    Graphic Forms: The Arts as Related to the Book

    Gyorgy Kepes, Paul Rand, Lynd Ward, et al. Harvard University Press
    (1949)

    The Rise of Cubism

    Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler Cover & typography by Rand
    (1949)

    The Fauvist Painters

    Georges Duthuit Cover & typography by Rand
    (1950)

    From Baudelaire to Surrealism

    Marcel Raymond Cover & typography by Rand
    (1950)

    The Dada Painters and Poets: An Anthology

    Robert Motherwell Cover & typography by Rand
    (1951)

    Modern Art in Advertising

    Walter Paepcke, Egbert Jacobson, P. Rand (designer) Paul Theobald
    (1952)

    Posters: Fifty artists and designers analyze their approach…

    Walter H Allner
    (1952)

    Seven Designers Look at Trademark Design

    Egbert Jacobson (editor) Paul Theobald
    (1952)

    Education of Vision

    Edited by Gyorgy Kepes George Braziller, Inc.
    (1965)

    Trademarks and Symbols of the World

    Yusaku Kamekura Preface by Rand
    (1965)

    Toys and Things Japanese: The Work of Shigeo Fukuda

    IBM Gallery Invitation Text by Rand
    (1967)

    Homage to the Book

    Folder insert by Rand
    (1968)

    PRINT: January/February

    20th Anniversary Issue, includes article by Rand
    (1960)

    AIGA 50 Books 50 Covers

    Cover & interior by Rand
    (1972)
    (2 images)

    A Look at Architecture

    Cover & interior by Rand
    (1974)
    (5 images)

    The Design Concept

    Short article by Rand
    (1981)

    For The Love of Letters

    Typographic love poems
    (1984)

    Type Directors Club

    A Twenty-Four Page book Cover & interior by Rand
    (1987)

    Type Talks

    Designed by Rand with interview by Mario Rampone
    (Fall 1989)


  • Covers only by Paul Rand


    Frank Davis (maquette)

    (1929)

    The Fervent Years

    (1945)

    Leave Cancelled

    (1945)
    (8 images)

    The Tables of the Law

    (1945)

    Origins of Modern Sculpture

    (1946)

    The Well Wrought Urn

    (1947)

    Modern Art in Your Life

    (1949)

    Sweden Builds

    (1950)

    Switzerland Builds

    (1950)

    Missa Solemnis, program cover

    (1952)

    The Shores of Light

    (1952)

    American Son

    (1954)

    The Origins And History Of Consciousness

    (1954)

    The Acquisitive Society

    (1955)

    Behind the Picture Window

    (1955)

    The Captive Mind

    (1955)

    The Revelations of Dr. Modesto

    (1955)

    The American Democrat

    (1956)

    The American Essays of Henry James

    (1956)

    The Anatomy of Revolution

    (1956)

    Art and Illusion

    (1956)

    Forces in Modern British Literature 1885-1956

    (1956)

    The Future of the Novel: Essays on the Art of Fiction

    (1956)

    Great Issues in American History, volume 1

    (1956)

    Great Issues in American History, volume 2

    (1956)

    A History of Russian Literature

    (1956)

    The Lost Steps

    (1956)

    Mine Boy

    (1956)

    Modern Art USA

    (1956)

    Modern Temper

    (1956)

    The New Borzoi Book of Ballet

    (1956)

    Plato: An Introduction

    (1956)

    Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons

    (1956)

    The Second Man

    (1956)

    Traps

    (1956)

    Leave Me Alone

    (1957)

    Museum of Modern Art: Portrait of Picasso

    (1957)

    Painting and Reality

    (1957)

    The Social History of Art Volume 1

    (1957)

    The Social History of Art Volume 2

    (1957)

    The Social History of Art Volume 3

    (1957)

    The Social History of Art Volume 4

    (1957)

    The Bathtub Hoax, and Other Blasts & Bravos From the Chicago Tribune

    (1958)

    The Declaration of Independence

    (1958)

    Exile and the Kingdom

    (1958)

    Prejudices: A Selection

    (1958)

    Seamarks

    (1958)

    Soviet Marxism

    (1958)

    Thomas Mann Essays

    (1958)

    Zen and Japanese Culture

    (1958)

    The Archetypal World of Henry Moore

    (1959)

    Asklepios: Archetypal Image of the Physician’s Existence

    (1959)

    Complex, archetype, symbol in the psychology of C.G. Jung

    (1959)

    A Fine Frenzy

    (1959)

    Goodbye, Columbus and 5 Short Stories

    (1959)

    Love Against Hate

    (1959)

    The Road to Xanadu

    (1959)

    The Transposed Heads

    (1959)

    Wake Up, Stupid

    (1959)

    American Institute of Graphic Arts: FIFTY BOOKS

    (1960)

    Change: Eight Lectures on the I Ching (Bollingen Series LXIII)

    (1960)

    Evangelical Theology

    (1960)

    The Future of an Illusion

    (1960)

    H. L. Mencken on Politics

    (1960)

    The Limits of Art

    (1960)

    Mudra: A Study of Symbolic Gestures in Japanese Buddhist Sculpture

    (1960)

    Of Time, Work, and Leisure

    (1960)

    Paul Valery Collected Works, Vol. 1-13

    (1960)

    The Possessed

    (1960)
    (2 images)

    Chronique

    (1961)

    Fiction and the Unconscious

    (1961)

    The Living Symbol

    (1961)

    Of Divers Arts

    (1961)

    Winds

    (1961)

    Borderlands

    (1962)

    Pandora’s Box

    (1962)

    Paracelsus: Selected Writings

    (1962)

    Six Nonlectures

    (1962)

    Wagner as Man and Artist

    (1962)

    The Condemned of Altona: A Play in Five Acts

    (1963)

    The Diplomats: 1919-1939

    (1963)

    Eleusis: Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughter

    (1963)

    The Great Mother

    (1963)

    The Portrait in the Renaissance

    (1963)

    Prometheus: Archetypal Image of Human Existence

    (1963)

    The Robber Bridegroom

    (1963)

    Ten Keys to Latin America

    (1963)

    The Gothic Cathedral

    (1964)

    Shamanism

    (1964)

    The ‘I’ and the ‘Not-I’

    (1965)

    Literary Language and It’s Public in Late Latin Antiquity and in the Middle Ages

    (1965)

    Aurora Consurgeons

    (1966)

    On Quality Art

    (1967)

    Selected Works of Miguel de Unamuno, vol. 3

    (1967)

    AIGA Annual

    (1968)

    Caligula and 3 Other Plays

    (1968)

    Myth of the Eternal Return

    (1971)

    Selected Works of Miguel de Unamuno, vol. 4

    (1972)

    AIGA Graphic Design USA: 3

    (1982)

    Richard Sapper: Werkzeuge fur das Leben

    (1993)


  • Written About Paul Rand


    Paul Rand

    PM Magazine, Vol. 4 No.9
    (1938)

    Paul Rand

    Laszlo Maholy-Nagy AD Magazine, Vol. 7 No. 3
    (1941)

    Advance Guard of Advertising Artists

    Katharine Kuh Gallery
    (October, 1941)

    Percy Seitlin American Artist magazine

    Percy Seitlin American Artist magazine
    (June , 1942)

    AD Gallery Presents:  Paul Rand

    Art Director's Club
    (1947)

    Paul Rand

    Graphis, Vol. 3, No. 18
    (1947)

    Trademarks by Paul Rand

    Portfolio Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1
    (1950)

    A House to Live With

    Esquire magazine
    (August, 1953)

    The Paul Rand Legend

    Eugene M. Ettenberg American Artist magazine
    (October, 1953)

    Paul Rand: His Works from 1946-1958

    Yusaku Kamekura George Wittenborn, Inc.
    (1960)

    Paul Rand, Commercial Artist

    Percy Seitlin American Artist Magazine
    (October, 1970)

    NYC ADC Inception of the Hall of Fame

    Art Director's Club of New York Watson-Guptill Publications
    (1971)

    The Printing Salesman’s Herald

    Michael Corey Champion Papers
    (1975)

    Pro.Files: The Great Graphic Innovators

    Gertrude Snyder U&lc magazine
    (March, 1977)

    Paul Rand

    Allen Hurlburt Commication Arts magazine
    (January/February, 1979)

    Paul Rand: Imperishable Champion

    John Luke (editor) Gutenberg & Family
    (October, 1985)

    Artograph #6, Paul Rand issue

    Roslyn Rernstein & Virginia Smith
    (1988)

    The Graphic Art of Paul Rand

    Mohawk Paper Mills
    (1988)

    CREATION no. 1

    Yusaku Kamekura (editor/art director) Tokyo: Recruit Co., Ltd.
    (1989)

    Graphic Design in America

    Mildred Friedman Abrams/Walker Arts Center
    (1989)

    The Graphic Genius of Paul Rand

    Jon Bowermaster Connecticut's Finest
    (Winter, 1989)

    Paul Rand

    Yusaku Kamekura Ginza Graphic Gallery
    (1992)

    Masters of Desgn

    Neil Burns HOW Magazine
    (February, 1993)

    Thoughts on Rand

    Steven Heller Print Magazine
    (May/June, 1993)

    Paul Rand, Writer

    Steven Heller Critique Magazine
    (Spring, 1997)

    Paul Rand, The Magician

    Lance Esplund Modern Painters
    (Spring, 1997)

    Six Chapters in Design

    Philip Meggs Chronicle Books
    (First edition October 1, 1997)

    Logocentrism

    Jessica Helfand New Republic
    (December 29, 1997, Vol. 217, Issue 26)

    Direction

    Steven Heller Design Literacy
    (1997)

    NeXT

    Steven Heller Design Literacy
    (1997)

    Thoughts on Paul Rand

    Henry Steiner Essays on Design 1: AGI's Designers of Influence
    (1997)

    American Modernist

    Jessica Helfand William Drenttel Editions
    (1998)

    Design Dialogues

    Elinor Pettit, Steven Heller
    (1998)

    A Designer’s Words

    Stephen Heller, Georgette Ballance & Nathan Garland
    (1998)

    Paul Rand

    Allen Hurlburt Communication Arts
    (March/April, 1999)

    Paul Rand’s Laboratory: The Art of Books Jackets and Covers

    Steven Heller Baseline Magazine, No. 27
    (1999)

    Paul Rand

    Steven Heller Phaidon Press
    (2000)

    Paul Rand: The Works of Paul Rand

    Japan
    (2002)

    Randism

    Steven Heller The Graphic Design Reader
    (2002)

    Paul Rand: Modernist Design

    Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo University of Maryland, Baltimore County
    (2003)

    Paul Rand: Conversations with Students

    Michael Kroeger Princeton Architectural Press
    (2007)


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