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The Left-Handed Designer Hardcover – January 1, 1985
- Print length143 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherHarry N Abrams Inc
- Publication dateJanuary 1, 1985
- Dimensions10.25 x 1 x 10.75 inches
- ISBN-100810912899
- ISBN-13978-0810912892
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- Publisher : Harry N Abrams Inc (January 1, 1985)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 143 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0810912899
- ISBN-13 : 978-0810912892
- Item Weight : 2.7 pounds
- Dimensions : 10.25 x 1 x 10.75 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,809,206 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #12,161 in Design & Decorative Arts
- #17,930 in Graphic Design (Books)
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About the author

Seymour Chwast is co-founder of Push Pin Studios and has been director of the Pushpin Group where he reintroduced graphic styles and transformed them into a contemporary vocabulary. His designs and illustrations have been used in advertising, animated films, and editorial, corporate, and environmental graphics. He has created over 100 posters and has designed and illustrated more than thirty children’s books. His work has been the subject of three books including, Seymour Chwast: The Left Handed Designer (Abrams, 1985). Many museums, such as the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Library of Congress (Washington D.C.) and the Israel Museum (Jerusalem), have collected his posters. He has lectured and exhibited worldwide and is in the Art Directors Hall of Fame. He is the recipient of the 1985 Medal from the American Institute of Graphic Artist.
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- Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2017Love the book
- Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2012Whatever else one might say about the American twentieth century, it has been a golden era for graphic art and design. From the fin de siecle posters and decorative trade book bindings created by Will Bradley and Frank Hazenplug for Stone and Kimball in Chicago in the 1890's to the extraordinary posters, dust jackets, album covers, package designs and advertisements created for their clients by Milton Glaser and Seymour Chwast at their Push Pin Studios in New York, we have been enriched throughout. This splendid coffee table book published for Push Pin Editions by Harry N. Abrams in 1985 contains hundreds of examples of Chwast's wonderful graphic works, a great many in full color.
The book begins with Chwast describing his many styles, his influences, including Ben Shahn, Goya and Daumier, and the norms he uses to decide who he will and won't work for (e.g. "I wouldn't work for a politician whose philosophy is radically different from mine..."). His comments on each work add immeasurably to the book as you page through it.
You will find many of your favorites here. Among mine, his posters for the TV productions of "Nicholas Nickleby", "Rumpole of the Bailey" and "I Claudius" ; his Time Magazine cover image of The Shah of Iran (November 27, 1978); the front and back record album drawings for the CBS "Rock and Roll Revolution" series; his illustrations for "The Pancake King," a children's book; "Coitus Topographicus" for the Push Pin Studios house organ "Couples" issue, and the pull out and fold back jacket for this book which extends to over four feet and shows Chwast's left hand at work with different drawing implements.And many, many more!
End note. Happily, "The Left-Handed Designer" is still available in the out-of-print market at, in a few cases, remaindered book prices. Go to Addall.com if you don't find one on Amazon. "The Pancake King" will be harder to find. I could only locate one reasonably priced copy. Several individual copies of "The Push Pin Graphic" are listed for sale on Addall.
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