(4) Push Pin Graphic Publications, Seymour Chwast [Push Pin Studios, NYC]

Push Pin Graphic edited by Seymour Chwast and contributing editor, Paula Scher. Push Pin Studios, Inc., 207 East 32nd Street, New York City, 1976-77. 9 x 12, each heavily illustrated with pp. 32 including stapled covers. Art Direction by Seymour Chwast.

Started by Push Pin Studios as a freeform publication sent to friends and clients in 1957, the experimental and groundbreaking Push Pin Graphic, ran for 23 years and 86 issues; eventually published as a 32-page bimonthly in 1976 (offered here), before ceasing publication in 1980.

Art directed and designed by Seymour Chwast, Push Pin Graphic featured articles supporting a specific theme for each issue. Many illustrations by Chwast, as well as other illustrators and photographers including black and white and color examples: Haruo Miyauchi, Bill Sloane, David Croland, Milton Glaser, Fred Marshall, Benno Friedman, Jeffrey Krassner, Henry Wolf, Michael Hostovich, Paula Scher/Seymour Chwast, John Collier,  Emanuel Schongut, Richard Mantel and others.

• Number 64, December 1976 — Mothers
• Number 67, June 1977 — Your Body and You
• Number 69, October 1977 — House Nice
• Number 70, December 1977 — Food & Violence

From the library of New York graphic designer Bob Salpeter with his studio ”Lopez & Salpeter” mailing label on the back of each cover. An original, good set of (4) publications with handling throughout. Some small tears to the cover margins and a corner torn on the back cover of Number 64.