Here’s the latest I can share: Paul Rand, the influential American graphic designer, passed away in 1996. If you’re looking for more recent developments, there haven’t been newer public updates about him abroad since his death.
Key background (for context)
- Rand helped define corporate identity design in the mid-20th century, creating logos for IBM, ABC, UPS, Westinghouse, and more [Britannica: Paul Rand].[4]
- He was also a prolific educator, teaching at Yale and publishing Thoughts on Design (1946) among other influential works [Britannica: Paul Rand].[4]
If you want, I can fetch the most recent obituaries, retrospectives, or scholarly articles about Rand from current sources and summarize them with citations.
Sources
This essay, a rememberance of Paul Rand, is taken from Michael Kroeger's book, Paul Rand: Conversations with Students, which will be published on January 3 by Princeton Architectural Press.
www.legalaffairs.orgOfficial site of graphic designer Paul Rand.
www.paulrand.designPaul Rand was one of the twentieth century's most influential graphic designers. Born in New York City, Rand was educated at Pratt Institute, Parsons School of Design, and the Art Students League, where he worked with George Grosz.
americanart.si.eduPaul Rand
www.newschool.eduRand, Paul(b. 15 August 1914 in Brooklyn, New York; d. 26 November 1996 in Norwalk, Connecticut), illustrator and seminal figure in American graphic design who was an inaugural inductee into the Art Director’s Club of New York Hall of Fame. Source for information on Rand, Paul: The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives dictionary.
www.encyclopedia.comThe man considered by many to be one of the legends of graphic design.
www.commarts.comPaul Rand was an American graphic designer who pioneered a distinctive American Modernist style. After studying in New York City, Rand worked as an art director for Esquire and Apparel Arts magazines from 1937 to 1941. As his work developed, Rand assimilated the philosophy and visual vocabulary of
www.britannica.comRand inspired generations of designers and brought the esthetics of modernist European movements to commercial art
www.wired.comPaul Rand was one of the most influential graphic designers of the 20th century. Although he is not widely known to the public, his work is universally and instantly recognisable - in particular the enduring logotypes he designed over the past 40 years for leading US corporations such as IBM and Apple.
www.independent.co.uk