Thank you to Newell Brands, which donated five portable display stands that the Archives can use for exhibiting up to 30 posters from the collection at off-site locations. We’re also grateful to be a resource to designers at the Newell Brands Design Center in Kalamazoo, who regularly access the collection for reference and creative inspiration. […]

The Graphic Design Archives at Zhang Legacy Collections Center was pleased to host Christine Schaaf, Midwest national accounts manager for Mohawk Paper Company, and Chuck Oleniczak, specification sales director for Central Michigan Paper (and member of the Archives advisory board) this spring. They were able to reminisce over projects in the collection printed on Mohawk […]

After review, the graphic design advisory committee has received a number of additions to the collection, representing the timeframe from the 1940s through the 2010s. Over 40 pieces are included, representing the work of, Irving Harper, John Massey, Roger Gould, Steve Frykholm, Yang Kim, and others. While every piece is of interest, a few parts […]

The archives is pleased to have all 38 Herman Miller picnic posters in-house. These include 20 from Steve Frykholm, 11 from Kathy Stanton, five from Brian Edlefson, and two from Andrew Dull. While many of the posters are included in various collections (MOMA, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, for example), we’re not aware of many […]

Our physical archive is valuable, without question. It’s the photography of each individual piece that allows people around the world to browse and learn from our collection. That’s only possible because of the expertise and time donated by a number of people: Yolanda Gonzalez and Mike Gorman, the Mr & Mrs creative team; Martin Schoenborn; […]