Herb Lubalin

This legendary art director, designer and type designer led the way for others.

This past March the iconic Herb Lubalin would have been 100 years old. To celebrate his centennial birthday Herb Lubalin Study Center launched Lubalin 100, a project directed by Annabel Brandon. The daily celebration featuring one work by the graphic design legend for each of the next 100 days has already garnered worldwide media attention. Per Alexander Tochilovsky, curator of the Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography at The Cooper Union...

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Come home to jazz was the first of four booklets published by the Composing Room in conjunction with the German print/graphics magazine Der Druckspiegel in 1960. The booklet was designed by the great Herb Lubalin and a spread or two is frequently shown in books and magazines that feature his work. Now you can see the complete thing. I always liked his brilliant typography in this booklet and the way he used line art as a very strong graphic element. Years later the artwork was featured in…

What was it like to work with the legendary Herb Lubalin? And to be involved in the design and production of Herb’s game-changing tabloid, Upper and Lower Case, the International Journal of Typogra…

Unit Editions: No More War? This ‘call for entries’ announcement is pure Lubalin: he juggles Victorian playbill typography with a sly reference to the U.S. flag, yet the graphic formul ation is late 1960s modern. The list of judges is an unusual fusion of desig

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