Bradbury Thompson: The Art of Graphic Design

Bradbury Thompson was one of the most important graphic designers of the twentieth century. The art director of Mademoiselle and design director of Art News and Art News Annual in the decades after World War II, he also designed the formats for some three dozen other magazines, including Smithsonian. He also designed postage stamps, rationalized alphabets, corporate identification programs, trademarks, and sacred works (most notably, the Washburn College Bible, in which the words are set in the cadence of speech). He’s perhaps most well known as the designer of more than sixty issues of Westvaco Inspirations. (We are sitting on dozens of those. We should probably count them and finally get them priced and on the site.) Anyway, this is the important book about his important work. It’s kinda required. And this copy is signed.