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Seymour Chwast was born in New York City and is a graduate of The Cooper Union, where he studied illustration and graphic design. He is a founding partner of the celebrated Push Pin Studios, whose distinct style has had a worldwide influence on contemporary visual communications. In 1985 the studio's name was changed to The Pushpin Group, of which Mr. Chwast is the director. Mr. Chwast's clients include leading corporations, advertising agencies and publishing companies both here and abroad. His designs and illustrations have been used in advertising, animated films, corporate and environmental graphics, books, magazines, posters, packaging and record covers. He created background images for the production of Candide at Lincoln Center in New York, and The Philadelphia Opera Company production of The Magic Flute. He has designed, written and illustrated numerous children's books and has developed many typefaces. Mr. Chwast published "The Push Pin Graphic," a magazine with subscribers all over the world. With Steven Heller, he formed Pushpin Editions, which produces books on the arts and graphic design. Seymour Chwast works in a variety of styles and media. His designs and illustrations have been exhibited in major galleries and museums in the United States, Europe, Japan, Brazil and Russia. Mr. Chwast and Push Pin were honored at the Louvre in Paris in a two-month retrospective exhibition titled The Push Pin Style. Among others, he has exhibited in the Kunstgewerbe Museum in Zurich, The Gutenberg Museum in Mainz, and The Museo de Arte in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and he has had several one-man shows of his paintings, sculptures and prints in this country. His posters are in the permanent collection of New York's Museum of Modern Art, The Cooper-Hewitt Museum of The Smithsonian Institution, The Library of Congress, The Gutenberg Museum and The Israel Museum. |
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C4 (Room 141-142)
