Gordon Martin and his wife, Jessie, were for many years, proprietors of The Type Shop, carefully handsetting headlines for himself and most of the other designers around town. A graduate of the Art Institute, Gordon went on to become head of the Visual Design Department at the Institute of Design and to see his book, The Playbill, published by IIT. 27 Chicago Designer member: 1954-1965. STA President 1957, Fellow 1962

1975