Books & Articles


Written & Designed by Paul Rand

  • This…Is the Stafford Stallion

    NYC: Goodman and Thiese
    (1944)

  • Thoughts on Design

    Wittenborn & Company
    (1947)

  • Trademark Design

    Paul Theobold & Company
    (1951, unpublished)

  • Sparkle and Spin

    Harcourt, Brace & World
    (1957)

  • The Trademarks of Paul Rand — A Selection

    George Wittenborn, Inc.
    (1960)

  • Little 1

    Harcourt, Brace & World
    (1962)

  • Listen! Listen!

    Harcourt, Brace & World
    (1970)

  • I Know a Lot of Things

    Harcourt, Brace & World
    (1973)

  • A Paul Rand Miscellany

    Design Quarterly
    (1984)

  • A Designer's Art

    Yale University Press
    (1985)

  • image

    Good Design is Good Will

    Yale University Press
    (1987)

  • image

    From Cassandre to Chaos

    Promotional pamphlet
    (1992)

  • Failure by Design

    Designers and Art Directors' Association
    (1993)

  • Design Form and Chaos

    Yale University Press
    (1993)

  • From Lascaux to Brooklyn

    Yale University Press
    (1996)

Return to Top

Contributed to, or Designed by Paul Rand

  • The Cubist Painters: Aesthetic Meditations 1913

    Guillaume Apollinaire
    Cover & typography by Rand
    (1944)

  • Plastic Art and
    Pure Plastic Art

    Piet Mondrian
    Cover & typography by Rand
    (1945)

  • The Stork Club Bar Book

    Lucius Beebe
    Cover & typography by Rand
    (1946)
    (13 images)

  • The New Vision and Abstract of an Artist

    Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
    Cover & typography by Rand
    (1946)

  • Kindergarten Chats & Other Writings

    Louis H. Sullivan
    Cover & typography by Rand
    (1947)

  • Possibilities 1, Problems of Contemporary Art

    Guillaume Apollinaire
    Cover & typography by Rand
    (1947)

  • Beyond Painting and Other Writings By the Artist and His Friends

    Max Ernst
    Cover & typography by Rand
    (1948)

  • Life of Forms in Art

    Henri Focillon
    Cover & typography by Rand
    (1948)

  • Women: A Collaboration of Artists and Writers

    Museum of Modern Art
    Cover & typography by Rand
    (1948)
    (17 images)

  • Paul Klee: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

    Museum Of Modern Art
    Cover & typography by Rand
    (1949)

  • 20th Century Art,
    Arensberg Collection

    Art Institute of Chicago
    Cover & typography by Rand
    (1949)

  • Graphic Forms: The Arts as Related to the Book

    Gyorgy Kepes, Paul Rand, Lynd Ward, et al.
    Harvard University Press
    (1949)

  • The Rise of Cubism

    Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler
    Cover & typography by Rand
    (1949)

  • The Fauvist Painters

    Georges Duthuit
    Cover & typography by Rand
    (1950)

  • The Dada Painters and Poets: An Anthology

    Robert Motherwell
    Cover & typography by Rand
    (1951)

  • Seven Designers Look at Trademark Design

    Egbert Jacobson (editor)
    Paul Theobald
    (1952)

  • Modern Art in Advertising

    Walter Paepcke, Egbert Jacobson, P. Rand (designer)
    Paul Theobald
    (1952)

  • Education of Vision

    Edited by Gyorgy Kepes
    George Braziller, Inc.
    (1965)

  • Trademarks and Symbols of the World

    Yusaku Kamekura
    Preface by Rand
    (1965)

  • AIGA 50 Books 50 Covers

    Cover & interior by Rand
    (1972)
    (2 images)

  • A Look at Architecture

    Cover & interior by Rand
    (1974)
    (5 images)

  • Type Directors Club

    A Twenty-Four Page book
    Cover & interior by Rand
    (1987)

  • Type Talks, Vol. 1 No. 1

    Cover & interview by Rand
    (Fall 1989)

Return to Top

Covers only by Paul Rand

  • Frank Davis
    (maquette)

    (1929)

  • The Fervent Years

    (1945)

  • Leave Cancelled

    (1945)

  • The Tables of the Law

    (1945)

  • Origins of Modern Sculpture

    (1946)

  • The Well Wrought Urn

    (1947)

  • Modern Art in Your Life

    MoMA Bulletin, Vol. 17, No. 1
    Cover design by Paul Rand
    (1949)

  • Switzerland Builds

    (1950)

  • The Shores of Light

    (1952)

  • American Son

    (1954)

  • The Acquisitive Society

    (1955)

  • The Captive Mind

    (1955)

  • The Revelations of Dr. Modesto

    (1955)

  • The American Essays of Henry James

    (1956)

  • The Anatomy of Revolution

    (1956)

  • Art and Illusion

    (1956)

  • Forces in Modern British Literature 1885-1956

    (1956)

  • Great Issues in American History

    (1956)

  • A History of Russian Literature

    (1956)

  • The American Democrat

    (1956)

  • Mine Boy

    (1956)

  • Modern Art USA

    (1956)

  • The New Borzoi Book of Ballet

    (1956)

  • Plato: An Introduction

    (1956)

  • Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons

    (1956)

  • The Lost Steps

    (1956)

  • The Second Man

    (1956)

  • Traps

    (1956)

  • Leave Me Alone

    (1957)

  • Museum of Modern Art: Portrait of Picasso

    Catalog cover
    (1957)

  • Painting and Reality

    (1957)

  • The Social History of Art

    (1957)

  • The Bathtub Hoax, and Other Blasts & Bravos From the Chicago Tribune

    (1958)

  • The Declaration of Independence

    (1958)

  • Exile and the Kingdom

    (1958)

  • Prejudices: A Selection

    (1958)

  • Seamarks

    (1958)

  • Soviet Marxism

    (1958)

  • Thomas Mann Essays

    (1958)

  • Zen and Japanese Culture

    (1958)

  • The Archetypal World of Henry Moore

    (1959)

  • Asklepios: Archetypal Image of the Physician's Existence

    (1959)

  • A Fine Frenzy

    (1959)

  • Goodbye, Columbus and 5 Short Stories

    (1959)

  • Love Against Hate

    (1959)

  • The Road to Xanadu

    (1959)

  • The Transposed Heads

    (1959)

  • Wake Up, Stupid

    (1959)

  • Degas, Manet, Morisot

    (1960)

  • Evangelical Theology

    (1960)

  • The Future of an Illusion

    (1960)

  • H. L. Mencken on Politics

    (1960)

  • The Limits of Art

    (1960)

  • Mudra: A Study of Symbolic Gestures in Japanese Buddhist Sculpture

    (1960)

  • Of Time, Work, and Leisure

    (1960)

  • The Living Symbol

    (1961)

  • Of Divers Arts

    (1961)

  • Paracelsus: Selected Writings

    (1962)

  • Six Nonlectures

    (1962)

  • Wagner as Man and Artist

    (1962)

  • The Condemned of Altona: A Play in Five Acts

    (1963)

  • The Diplomats: 1919-1939

    (1963)

  • Eleusis: Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughter

    (1963)

  • The Great Mother

    (1963)

  • The Portrait in the Renaissance

    (1963)

  • Prometheus: Archetypal Image of Human Existence

    (1963)

  • The Robber Bridegroom

    (1963)

  • Shamanism

    (1964)

  • The 'I' and the 'Not-I'

    (1965)

  • Aurora Consurgeons

    (1966)

  • On Quality Art

    (1967)

  • Our Lord Don Quixote

    (1967)

  • AIGA Annual

    (1968)

  • Caligula and 3 Other Plays

    (1968)

  • AIGA Graphic Design
    USA: 3

    (1982)

  • Richard Sapper: Werkzeuge fur das Leben

    (1993)

Return to Top

Written About Paul Rand

  • Paul Rand

    PM Magazine, Vol. 4 No.9
    (1938)

  • Paul Rand

    Laszlo Maholy-Nagy
    AD Magazine, Vol. 7 No. 3
    (1941)

  • Advance Guard of Advertising Artists

    Katharine Kuh Gallery
    (October 1941)

  • AD Gallery Presents:
    Paul Rand

    Art Director's Club
    (1947)

  • A House to Live With

    Esquire magazine
    (August 1953)

  • The Paul Rand Legend

    Eugene M. Ettenberg
    American Artist magazine
    (October 1953)

  • Paul Rand: His Works from 1946-1958

    Yusaku Kamekura
    George Wittenborn, Inc.
    (1960)

  • NYC ADC Inception of the Hall of Fame

    Art Director's Club
    of New York
    Watson-Guptill Publications
    (1971)

  • The Printing Salesman's Herald

    Michael Corey
    Champion Papers
    (1975)

  • Pro.Files: The Great Graphic Innovators

    Gertrude Snyder
    U&lc magazine
    (March 1977)

  • Paul Rand: Imperishable Champion

    John Luke (editor)
    Gutenberg & Family
    (October 1985)

  • Artograph #6 with
    Paul Rand interview

    Roslyn Rernstein &
    Virginia Smith
    (1988)

  • CREATION no. 1

    Yusaku Kamekura
    (editor/art director)
    Tokyo: Recruit Co., Ltd.
    (1989)

  • The Graphic Genius of
    Paul Rand

    Jon Bowermaster
    Connecticut's Finest
    (Winter 1989)

  • Paul Rand

    Yusaku Kamekura
    Ginza Graphic Gallery
    (1992)

  • Masters of Desgn

    Neil Burns
    HOW Magazine
    (February 1993)

  • Paul Rand, Writer

    Steven Heller
    Critique Magazine
    (Spring 1997)

  • Six Chapters in Design

    Philip Meggs
    Chronicle Books
    (first edition edition
    October 1, 1997)

  • Direction

    Steven Heller
    Design Literacy
    (1997)

  • NeXT

    Steven Heller
    Design Literacy
    (1997)

  • Thoughts on Paul Rand

    Henry Steiner
    Essays on Design 1: AGI's Designers of Influence
    (1997)

  • American Modernist

    Jessica Helfand
    William Drenttel Editions
    (1998)

  • A Designer's Words

    Stephen Heller, Georgette Ballance & Nathan Garland
    (1998)

  • Paul Rand

    Allen Hurlburt
    Communication Arts
    (March/April 1999)

  • Paul Rand

    Steven Heller
    Phaidon Press
    (2000)

  • Randism

    Steven Heller
    The Graphic Design Reader
    (2002)

  • Paul Rand: Modernist Design

    Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo
    University of Maryland
    (2003)

  • Paul Rand: Conversations with Students

    Michael Kroeger
    Princeton Architectural Press
    (2007)

Return to Top

Historical Timeline

Follow Rand's life and career as he creates design history.

Go
Have something to share?

Contact us with a story, quote, visual or other Rand related item to add to the site.

Thoughts on Design

Memorable quotes and articles that will inspire and enlighten.

Gallery

View the work.