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1959    
   
1- Communication Arts first issue
  
     
  2- Litton annual report: Robert Miles Runyan Associates
     
1- NASA “meatball” logo (revived in 1992): James Modarelli
  
     
  2- Monet exhibition poster: Norm Gollin
     
1- Westinghouse logo: Paul Rand. It supposedly is inspired by african masks
  
     
  2- “Around the world” ad for IBM: Benton & Bowles
     
1- Book jacket for Vintage books. Illustrator: ben Shahn
  
     
  2- Ad from Container Corporation of America's "great ideas of Western Man2 series. Director Egbert Jacobson; illustrator Gene Federico
 

 

    
 

 

    
1959 Politics e culture  
Barbie introduced
IBM 401 computer
Xerox photocopying machine
Cuba: castro takes power
Frank Lloyd Wright dies
France: DeGaulle becomes president
 Hawaii becomes 50th state
George Grosz dies
Robert Noyce creates planar integrated circuit, allowing commercial development
1960  
   
1- Saul Bass designs title sequence and directs shower nscene for Alfred Hitchcock’s film, Psycho
  
     
  2- International paper logo: Lester Beall
     
1- Parisian Bakeries identity: Marget Larsen
  
     
  2- Volks Wagen Beetle print campaign begins. Doyle Dane Bernbach
     
1- Exodus film logotype: Saul Bass & Associates
  
     
  2- Eagle Shirtmakers Print ad. Weiner & Gossage

 

    
1- Hunt Foods print ad: Young & Rubicam
  
     
     
 
1960 Politics e culture  
Kennedy and Nixon
Debate on television
U2 spy plane shot down
Ornette Coleman
Releases “Free Jazz”
 John F. Kennedy elected
U.S. nuclear sub circumnavigates earth under water
1961  
   
1- Eros: Herb Lubalin art director
  
     
  2- United Parcel Service logo: Paul Rand
     
1- Hillside Press logo: Keith Bright
  
     
  2- CBS Television Network print ad Lou Dorfsman/Al Amato
     
1- Chun King TV commercial: BBDO, agency; Freberg Ltd., production company
  
     
  2- Helvetica (linotype), a reinterpretation of existing Grotesks by Edouard Hoffman and Max Miedinger in 1957, becomes one of the most widely specified typeface families in the U.S. during the ‘60s and ‘70s. Redesigned and expandes as Neue helvetica in 1983
1961 Politics e culture  
Newton Minow, FCC chairman, lambastes TV as a “vast wasteland” calls for more federal regulation; the same day, Hubert Humphrey calls TV “the greatest single achievement in communication that anybody or any area of the worid has ever known.”
 First manned space flight, Yuri Gagarin orbits earth
Thalidomide birth defects
Alan Shepard first american in space
Amnesty International formed
Berlin wall constructed
Ernest Hemingway kills himself
Assassination of Dominican Republic president Rafael Trujillo Molina
MIT develops first timesharing computer
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