Book design -- Illinois -- Chicago
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Don May papers
Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-May
Abstract
Commercial design work and professional papers of May, a designer and art director for several Chicago-based publications. May later moved his practice to California where he became a regional painter as well as a designer.
Dates:
1927-2009; Majority of material found within 1935 - 1982
Raymond Franklin DaBoll Papers
Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-DaBoll
Abstract
Correspondence, original art, printed works, biographical information by and about Chicago calligrapher and designer Raymond F. DaBoll; includes ephemera from other artists.
Dates:
1905-1982; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1982
William A. Kittredge papers
Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Kit
Abstract
Chicago designer and author on design, Director of Design and Typography for the R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co. of Chicago from 1922-1945. Largely a collection of printed ephemera selected to exemplify the best design of the twentieth century, this collection also includes a few original designs by Kittredge, some correspondence with other designers (most notably Rockwell Kent, Rudolph Ruzicka, Edward A. Wilson, D.B. Updike, and Edward Penfield), and extensive samples of Kittredge's printed...
Dates:
1907-1952; Majority of material found within 1922 - 1944