Seymour Chwast
Designer, Illustrator, Founder
Articles & interviews5
- Seymour Chwast Turns 95 and Keeps Creating
Steven Heller marks Seymour Chwast's 95th birthday, encouraging readers to send him good wishes. The brief post showcases a sampler of Chwast's unpublished cut-metal pieces and celebrates his continued creative output.
- Maggie Walsh on Strategy, Creativity, and Building Brand Fandoms
Steven Heller memorializes designer, author, editor, and educator Steven Brower, who died at age 74. The article highlights Brower's work as PRINT's creative director, his illustration-editing role at The Nation, his book-jacket design, teaching at Marywood University, and his extensive work documenting graphic design, comics, and American cultural history.
- Hanneke Rozemuller Explores Dreams and Anxieties in Illustrations
The article profiles Dutch illustrator Hanneke Rozemuller, whose editorial work explores themes of psychology, philosophy, and the surreal. Drawing inspiration from Push Pin Studios and artists like Milton Glaser and Seymour Chwast, her dreamlike, textural illustrations use blue tones to evoke introspection and emotional depth.
- Chwast’s witty Pushpin studio moving announcement
The article revisits a late-1980s moving announcement created by Seymour Chwast for the Pushpin Group's relocation to a new Park Avenue South studio. The announcement is praised for Chwast's dry, ironic and unmistakable graphic humor, despite not using Warholian imagery.
- Poster House to host Seymour Chwast book event
Poster House will host Seymour Chwast and Steven Heller in conversation on Oct. 24, marking the release and discussion of two books covering Chwast's work. The event focuses on Chwast's extensive output of children's picture books, including Heller's bibliographic survey, The Picture Book Book: The Art of Seymour Chwast.