Gerald Cinamon: Designer, Typographer, and Author #2
Gerald Cinamon is an American designer, typographer, and author known for restrained, quietly bold work shaped by Swiss modernism. He was chief designer at Penguin Books through the 1960s and 70s, and also produced work for Monotype and the BBC.
Paul Faassen, birds in his head
Born in Boston in 1930, Cinamon studied at the Massachusetts School of Art, then earned a master’s at Yale’s Department of Graphic Arts. His teachers there included Alvin Eisenman, Herbert Matter, and Paul Rand.
His final-year project, Darwin, Wallace and the Theory of Natural Selection, was chosen by AIGA as one of its Fifty Books of the Year in 1957. The following year, a Fulbright scholarship took him to Basel to study under the Swiss master Armin Hofmann.
The engravings and prints of Enid Marx
Born in Boston in 1930, Cinamon studied at the Massachusetts School of Art, then earned a master’s at Yale’s Department of Graphic Arts. His teachers there included Alvin Eisenman, Herbert Matter, and Paul Rand.
His final-year project, Darwin, Wallace and the Theory of Natural Selection, was chosen by AIGA as one of its Fifty Books of the Year in 1957. The following year, a Fulbright scholarship took him to Basel to study under the Swiss master Armin Hofmann.
Willy Fleckhaus, diseñador y director de Arte
Born in Boston in 1930, Cinamon studied at the Massachusetts School of Art, then earned a master’s at Yale’s Department of Graphic Arts. His teachers there included Alvin Eisenman, Herbert Matter, and Paul Rand.
His final-year project, Darwin, Wallace and the Theory of Natural Selection, was chosen by AIGA as one of its Fifty Books of the Year in 1957. The following year, a Fulbright scholarship took him to Basel to study under the Swiss master Armin Hofmann.
Gerald Cinamon: Designer, Typographer, and Author
Gerald Cinamon is an American designer, typographer, and author known for restrained, quietly bold work shaped by Swiss modernism. He was chief designer at Penguin Books through the 1960s and 70s, and also produced work for Monotype and the BBC.