1991 interview with legendary graphic designer Paul Rand, creator of logos for IBM, ABC-TV, Westinghouse, UPS and hundreds more. … Paul Rand Miggs Burroughs logos IBM Westinghouse UPS ABC graphic design artis
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What are the graphic artist essentials for working in the t-shirt business? What else besides color separation would I need to know? What does an employer look for in a graphic designer during an interview? Sorry, for all the questions but I’d love to get into this awesome career!
he almost looks like the bad guy in sin city
PAUL RAND MY HERO!
I am studying to become a qualified Graphic Designer at the University. i am also a t-shirt printer!
I have to agree about my hair at the time. There are a lot of “do-overs” I could wish for in my life. As far as my own design credentials, apparently they were good enough for TIME Magazine who hired me to design 5 of their covers in the early 70s, and the U.S. Government who hired me to design a commemorative Postage stamp. I was even invited to do an Easter Egg for the White House. Go Figure. Even my father told me that no one would ever hire me with “hair like that”. Thanks for watching.
I’d like to art direct that Seventies throwback interviewers hair! And how about that shitty set? It looks like the nursery in a bowling alley. It’s an insult to have Paul Rand appear before it!
..why is he so yellow in this video?
Design, generally speaking, is such a fly by the seat of your pants profession, that it’s amusing to hear an older one speak about iconography with such whimsy and lack of irony. Poetry can’t be described and neither can design–both HAPPEN to a great extent as insightful creations, governed by fashion, cleverness and applied imagination. Not thru some magical process…just a willful desire. Rand has held a position, much like a dinosaur…one day relegated to extinction. Ah the good old days..
I love what he said last, about the 8 stripes. It shows how much we, as graphic designers, try to read into things and sometimes they just don’t need to be read. But very good interview! =)
is that presentor ******* on a candy?
THX ALLOTH for posting this, i have bin searching more videos on paul rand for a while now, this is great.
Thanks Key,
He was a tough nut indeed, but there was always a twinkle in his eye, and in his art.
good stuff Miggs.
you did a great job interviewing and getting a lot of interesting information out of one of the most important fathers of what we know as “graphic design” today… and perhaps one of the toughest nuts to ***** as well ; )
thanks so much for posting the vids. i thoroughly enjoyed it.
Interesting observation. His wife was in the studio and was verbally prompting him and gesturing every time I asked a question, which made us both a bit uneasy. I found him to be a very articulate and delightful guest with a great, dry sense of humor.
Whoa, check out the body language on Rand. He’s not terrible happy-looking.