Occasionally important materials are made available to the Chicago Design Archive. These may take the form of presentations, video interviews, essays, or articles from publications. These resources, added to the existing collection of visual material, provide viewers, researchers, teachers, and students a greater understanding about Chicago design and designers.
We invite you to submit materials relating to Chicago design history for consideration. Permission, of course, must be provided by the original source.
Caxtonian
- An Appreciation of Caxtonian Muriel Underwood
Michael Gorman - Chicago Design Archive: A Short History
Jack Weiss - Remembering Bruce Beck
Robert McCamant - The Bauhaus in Chicago
Lynn Martin Windsor
Communication Arts
- Kym Abrams
- Chris Arvetis
- Jeff Barnes
- Bruce Beck 1
- Bruce Beck 2
- Ed Bedno
- Blake & Weiss
- David Burke
- Burson-Marsteller
- Chicago Panel
- Crate&Barrel
- Design in Chicago
- The Design Partnership
- Field of Practice
- Morton Goldsholl
- Mabrey Kaiser
- Susan Jackson Keig
- Larry Klein
- Leviathan
- Jim Lienhart
- Steve Liska
- John Massey
- Arthur Paul
- Norm Perman
- Robert Petrick
- Carl Regehr 1
- Carl Regehr 2
- Michael Reid
- Henry Robertz
- RVI Corporation
- Samata Associates
- Carlos Segura
- SPAN
- Thirst
Graphis
- A Chicago Tribune Geek-Out
- A Commercial Artist’s Life
- African American Designers in Chicago
- An Offer You Cannot Refuse
- Chicago, Oh What a Poster Town
- Chicago World’s Fair Memorabilia- A Century Of Progress, 1933-34
- Chicago’s Design Meat Market
- Designer of the Week- Jen Marquez
- Designer of the Week- Matthew Terdich
- Empower and Inspire Creatives the EPIC Way
- The Goldsholls, Chicago Design Pioneers
- History in Wrigleyville - Vintage Cubs Memorabilia & Logo Designs
- Impact vs. Recognition- A Design Mystery in Chicago’s Hyde Park
- Keeping Everyone in the Loop
- A Short, Grandiose Theory of Design
Jay Doblin - Can History be Corrected?
Victor Margolin - Bauhaus Chicago: Design in the City
Alison Fisher - Design Detective: Discovering Hidden Histories of Women Designers
Victoria Matranga Fonts in Use
- Institute of Design: The Rocky Road
John Chancellor - Is There a Chicago Tradition?
Paul Gehl - It Started With An Ashtray
Victoria Matranga - Odd Business, This Industrial Design
Victoria Matranga - Tales From the Font
Emily M. Tamny
- 1948 ID Catalog
Lazlo Moholy Nagy - 27 Chicago Designers: When Art Became Design, 1936–1991
Jack Weiss - A Signature for Morningstar
Paul Rand - Big Shoulders Presentation
Patric King - Big Shoulders Specimen Book
Patric King - Printing for the Modern Age: Commerce, Craft and Culture in the RR Donnelley Archive
Kim Coventry - Selling Design: 27 Chicago Designers 1936–1991
Lara Allison
- Everyday Modern: The Industrial Design of Alfonso Iannelli
Victoria Matranga (Foreword) - Graphic Design in Chicago
Victor Margolin - Needed: An Inclusive History of Chicago Graphic Design
Victor Margolin - 100 Years of Poetry: Designing the Magazine, 1912–2012
Paul Gehl - The Society of Typographic Arts: A Seventy-five Year History
Rob Dewey & Jack Weiss - To Build a Better Mousetrap
Pauline Saliga - Why Chicago? A Brief History
Rob Dewey & Victor Margolin
- AIGA Design Archives: Chicago
AIGA Design Medalists: Chicago
Chicago Film Archives
- IIT – Institute of Design
Designing the Future - University of Illinois at Chicago
UIC Special Collections: Design Archives
Nearly half of the feature CA articles about Chicago designers in this section were generously provided by Patrick Coyne, editor of Communication Arts magazine. A recent contribution by Phil Hamilton added sixteen others. Wayne Stuetzer and Joseph Essex provided more. Six of the video interviews of Chicago Designers were conducted in 1991 by Robert Even at Northern Illinois University with a grant from the NEA. Others were conducted by George Thompson at Columbia College Chicago.
Recent additions to this section include feature articles from Print.com, contributed by Steven Heller and J.J. Sedelmaier. The Chicago Film Archives has generously provided links to their collection of films by Chicago designers. Paul Young, on behalf of Bauhaus Chicago Foundation, contributed the digital copy of Institute of Design...The Rocky Road.
Resources for Sale
27 Chicago Designers:
When Art Became Design 1936–1991
Designed by former 27 Chicago Designer Joseph Michael Essex and edited by former 27 Chicago Designer Jack Weiss, this book documents the work of the 125 cumulative members of the 27 Chicago Designers through its 55-year history. Published in conjunction with the exhibition, 27 Chicago Designers: Selling Design 1936–1991 co-curator Lara Allison said, “...without an understanding of 27 Designers, Chicago’s design history cannot be fully comprehended.”
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