Paul Rand

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1914–1996 | BORN: Brooklyn, New York | EDUCATION: Pratt Institute, Parsons School of Design, Art Students League

Mastered corporate identity, advertising, and editorial design

Developed strong identity programs for major corporations

Influenced others through writing and teaching

Paul Rand said, “Visual communications of any kind, whether persuasive or informative, from billboards to birth announcements, should be seen as the embodiment of form and function: the integration of the beautiful and the useful.” It’s not only about how it looks, or how it works, but about how it looks and works together.

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