Resources
Resources
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.
Periodicals
Communication Arts
- 27 Chicago Designers
- Kym Abrams
- Chris Arvetis
- Jeff Barnes
- Bruce Beck 1
- Bruce Beck 2
- Ed Bedno
- Blake & Weiss
- David Burke
- Burson-Marsteller
- Chicago Panel
- Crate&Barrel
- The Design Partnership
- 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
- Thirst
- Rick Valicenti
- VSA Partners
- Chicago, Oh What a
Poster Town - Chicago’s Design
Meat Market - A Chicago Tribune
Geek-Out - A Commercial Artist’s Life
- The Goldsholls, Chicago Design Pioneers
- Keeping Everyone in
the Loop
- The Ravinia Festival
- Schwinn as its
Own Spokesperson - Second City Packages
- A True Visionary
- Vintage Orange Crush
Soda Bottles
A Midwestern Modernist Vision
Can History be Corrected?
Bauhaus Chicago: Design in the City
Chicago Bauhaus: Past, Present and Future
Design Detective:
Discovering Hidden
Histories of Women
Designers
Institute of Design:
The Rocky Road
It Started With An Ashtray
Odd Business,
This Industrial Design
Remembering Bruce Beck
A Short, Grandiose Theory of Design
Tales From the Font
Books
Book Excerpts
Everyday Modern:
The Industrial Design of Alfonso Iannelli
Graphic Design in Chicago
Needed: An Inclusive History of Chicago Graphic Design
100 Years of Poetry: Designing the Magazine, 1912–2012
The Bauhaus in Chicago
The Society of Typographic Arts: A Seventy-five Year History
To Build a Better Mousetrap
Why Chicago? A Brief History
The History of Chicago Design
Homage to the 27
Selling Design: 27 Chicago Designers, 1936-1991
27 Chicago Designers
Interviews
Collections
Chicago Film Archives
IIT – Institute of Design
University of Illinois at Chicago
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" exhibition co-curator Lara Allison said, "...without an understanding of 27 Designers, Chicago's design history cannot be fully comprehended."
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