Print Culture: Midcentury Modern Graphic Design
Print Culture: Midcentury Modern Graphic Design in San Diego is a rich variety of fine graphic design created in the mid-twentieth century by local designers, illustrators, photographers, artists, and art directors – described as San Diego’s own “mad men.” A variety of techniques and creative processes are represented with some intimately handmade items and others more commercial. Graphics for the defense industry represent one end of a spectrum. At the other end is work that artists did for themselves: exhibition announcements, mailers, posters, invitations, greeting cards, and all kinds of printed objects – some offhand, some precise – that are, at once, independent works of art and evidence of historic creative activity. Runs December 10 to February 26 in the Art Gallery on the 9th Floor.