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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(1951, unpublished)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)

Paul Rand

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)
Life of Forms in Art

Henri Focillon
Cover & typography by Rand
(1948)
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)
(21 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)
Seven Designers Look at Trademark Design

Egbert Jacobson (editor)
Paul Theobald
(1952)
Modern Art in Advertising

Walter Paepcke, Egbert Jacobson, P. Rand (designer) 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)
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)

Paul Rand

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)
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

(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)
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)
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)
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)

Paul Rand

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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