1970s
CBS Records
Designers Henrietta Condak, Paula Scher, Carin Goldberg
Produce and art direct ads
and album covers for the
company
1970
Paula Scher | American (1948– )
Graphic, Packaging, and
Environmental Designer
Begins career designing record
covers as art director for CBS
and Atlantic Records
During the 1970s Paula Scher and Henrietta Condak worked in the packaging department
designing and art-directing album covers for CBS Records. A time of tremendous
success for the company, the work pace was relentless with Scher doing
over 100 covers in a year. The aesthetic was for a polished product. While Scher experimented
with imagery and visual puns, Condak’s work tended to be more conservatively
sophisticated. For the hundreds of record covers that they designed or art
directed, the pair commissioned unknown and underground illustrators as well as
known artists such as Milton Glaser and Seymour Chwast.
memorable women
ART AND ENVIRONMENT poster: Jacqueline Casey, courtesy MIT Museum
1971
Jacqueline Casey | American (1927–1991)
Graphic Designer
Seventeen of Casey’s posters are
featured in Print magazine’s
competition Poster USA: 1960–1970
the second-largest number by an
individual or studio
Jacqueline Casey joined the Office of Publications (Design Services Office) at Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1955 under design director and fellow
Massachusetts College of Art alumnus Muriel Cooper. When Cooper left to join
the MIT faculty in 1972, Casey became director of the Office of Publications. Influenced
by Swiss design, Casey is best known for the posters she created to publicize
MIT events and exhibitions. Her high contrast, type-heavy compositions were intended
to stand out on already cluttered university bulletin boards. She often used
manipulated letterforms for primary text, and set the supporting information in
smaller type.
1971
Katherine McCoy | American (1945– )
Graphic Designer, Educator
Becomes cochairperson with
husband Michael of the department
of design at the Cranbrook Academy
of Art
1974
Sheila Levrant De Bretteville | American (1940– )
Art Historian, Graphic Designer,
Public Artist
Designs Women in Design:
The Next Decade for an exhibit
at The Woman’s Building in
Los Angeles (a place for women
to exhibit art) which she
cofounded with Judy Chicago
and Arlene Raven
1975
Muriel Cooper | American (1924–1994)
Graphic Designer,
Educator, Researcher
Founds the Visible
Language Workshop, part
of MIT's Media Lab
1977
Sara Giovanitti | American (19??– )
Graphic Design, Art
Direction
Works as design director
for The Boston Globe
(1977-1983)
1978
Mary Faulconer | American (1912– )
Illustrator, Designer
Designs U.S.
Commemorative
“Rose” stamp
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