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Art director of Mademoiselle magazine (1945–1959)
Mademoiselle was aimed at the new working girl (like Glamour magazine and particularly Charm) post-war, emancipated and newly worrying about how to conduct and dress herself in the workplace. All well before the Mad Men years.
What a lovely piece of self-referential design this cover is. Minimum text, minimal colour palette and maximum design. |
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Personal book: The Art of Graphic Design (Yale, 1988)
"This is not a book expounding theories of design in words; it is a book of practice, a visual demonstration of amazing versatility and typographic adventure. . . . I have always thought that just as few ever succeed in being both artist and designer, so even fewer succeed in both advertising and editorial design. But here is Bradbury Thompson, consummate in both. In the current phrase, this book shows supremely well what graphic design today is all about."—Ruari McLean, New York Times Book Review |