Paul rand’s business card.
i find this card on gary taxali’s facebook wall. ( 4/30/2010 – 28 comments )
research for this post reveals one blogger believes the phone number was purposefully left incomplete.
great story “jobs plus rand equals logo“
above: student just sends me new lenscrafters ad. but we digress.
Resources:
amass blog ( 12/18/09 – student of rand recounting interview with peter arnell – 23 comments )
your business card sucks ( 12/20/2009 – two comments )
struktur blog ( 12/20/2010 – two comments )
agitlog ( 1/3/2010 – no comments )
boing boing ( 1/5/2010 – 36 comments )
cubicle 17 ( 1/5/2010 – 106 notes )
object of my obsession ( 1/5/22010 – comments closed )
monoscope ( 1/5/2010 – no comments )
design fetish ( 1/5/2010 – no comments )
ffffound ( 1/6/2010 – no comments naturally )
buzzbox ( 1/6/2010 – no comments )
submitted for your perusal ( 1/6/2010 – no comments )
graze it ( 1/6/2010 – no comments )
dream sequence ( 1/6/2010 – 106 notes )
designers go to heaven ( 1/6/2010 – no comments )
blogless ( 1/10/2010 – one comment )
minilistic ( 1/11/2010 – no comments )
holster ( 1/15/2010 – no comments )
stefpause ( 1/16/2010 – no comments )
leigh newman ( 1/17/2010 – no comments )
ricky irvine journal (2/4/2010 – no comments – post author believes card did not have complete phone number for a reason… )
guns & elmo ( 4/6/2010 – 106 notes )
@designinformer ( 4/9/2010 – publishes on twitter )
gary taxali’s facebook wall ( 4/30/2010 – 28 comments – i find the card on gary’s wall )
as a side note, interesting story by steve heller at nyt on rand’s 1960 redesign concept for ford
4 comments ↓
thanks so much for highlighting my post about paul rand’s business card. it has been referenced a many times and it is fun to see where it ended up on the internet. i would like to clarify a couple of things. there is no black border. several people thought this was part of the design. i scanned it on a black. also the last four digits of phone number were left off for privacy reasons. it is indeed the real thing. i was one of his students at yale and i asked him for his card when i first met him.
again my thanks, jpw
jim, thanks for clarifying the phone number and the black border. there were in fact more links and agreed, the internet trail is fun. i never met him but talked several times. if i had his card i would treasure it too.
happy to see no punctuation. thanks to possibly the IBM Selectric and for sure desktop publishing we don’t need the periods, commas, dashes, fingernails, if you’re going the style route.
it would be perfect without a colon or slash in the phone number. almost expected no caps throughout.
fun!
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