Resource Klaxon: The People's Graphic Design Archive
/Here we feature a recent find – The People’s Graphic Design Archive – uncovered by Dylan Carr. In its own words here’s an overview of the website and its intentions:
The People’s Graphic Design Archive is a crowd-sourced virtual archive that includes everything from finished projects to process, photos, letters, oral histories, anecdotes, published and unpublished articles, essays, and other supporting material in the form of documents, videos, audio, as well as links to other relevant archives and websites.
Our goal is to enable new and expanded stories about a graphic design history— one that represents diverse cultures and a broad range of interests! The archive exists in Notion now, but will eventually move to a purpose-built, public website.
We’ve had a brief peruse and it is clearly an absolute warren of resource. Below is just a very small snippet of a quick journey over a coffee. So, from The People’s Graphic Design Archive, we went to The School of Visual Arts Archive, which took us to an archive of Chermayeff & Geismar.
This is along with our other featured archives is a free, seemingly infinite resource of graphic design from across history. Incredibly important. Incredibly useful. Thanks Dylan.
SVA Subway Poster – 1990
Examples from the Chermayeff & Geismar archive
