Poster: "mit bsu" by Dietmar Winkler, c. 1970
Image crop from Instagram post by Display/Kind Company @thisisdisplay, 23 June 2015: "MIT BSU ['The MIT Black Students Union suggests you consider graduate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology'] poster" [designed by Dietmar Winkler of the MIT Office of Design Services, c. 1970s]. From the ‘Swiss Style: International Graphic Design’ exhibit at the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich [Museum of Design Zurich].
About the Artist
Jacqueline S. Casey (1927-1991), Director of the MIT Office of Publications, was a graphic designer best known for the posters she created for the Institute.
[Casey] trained at Massachusetts College of Art before working as a fashion illustrator and advertising, editorial and interior designer. In 1955 she joined the Office of Publications (Design Services Office) at [MIT] working with Muriel Cooper who was then Design Director. Casey's work acknowledges the influence of the Grid established by the post-war graphic design masters in Switzerland. As Director of Design Services many of her posters have been created to publicize exhibitions organized by the MIT Committee on the Visual Arts. She often uses strong elemental imagery, maniupulated [sic] by letterforms. Exhibitions of her work have been held at MIT, at the Chelsea School of Art, London (1978) and the London College of Printing (1980)...A collection of 99 posters designed by Jacqueline S. Casey for events and activities at MIT from 1963 to 1990 was donated to RIT in 1992 by the MIT Museum at the request of Ms. Casey.
Graphic Design Archives at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)
