Lester Beall
Recent articles about Lester Beall
Ring-bound to rule them all
Issue 90, Summer 2015
Manuals 2: Design & Identity Guidelines (Unit Editions, £75) follows Unit…
Space, time and content
Issue 24, Spring 1997
Photomontage allowed Lester Beall to unite art, photography, typography and painting with…
Political imagery re-examined
Issue 58, Winter 2005
One challenge of design and art historians today is how to analyse familiar…
Recent blog posts by Lester Beall
Posters of protest and peace
7 July 2015
This Czech poster book contains much that is fresh and surprising, but makes some odd omissions. Review by Ken Garland
The context for the work shown in this book is usefully established by the 70 photographs that form its endpapers, writes Ken Garland.
A century of lick and stick
28 November 2013
Michael Russem’s Postage Stamps By AIGA Medalists features graphic design in miniature from 1909-2007
Michael Russem’s book Postage Stamps by AIGA Medalists, showcases almost every known stamp designed by a medallist, writes Meredith Thomas.
Design for drugs in NYC
7 October 2011
Exhibition will explore the graphic world of pharmaceutical products
A new exhibition at The Herb Lubalin Study Center at The Cooper Union will explore the graphic world of pharmaceutical design. Work by Andy Warhol, Lester Beall, Will Burtin and Herb Lubalin features in the show, which charts design for drugs from the 1940s to the present day. Here, curator Alexander Tochilovsky shares his thoughts about what he sees as a ‘golden age’ in US pharmaceutical design, the 1940s and 50s.