Philip Grushkin: A Designer’s Archive WADbyBK It’s a set of caps

It’s a set of caps with serifs—and they’re greenish

There was a time

And in these troubling times

Put these loose prints in the drawers for a little exhibition

000 items made up the famous Girard Foundation

Philip Grushkin: A Designer’s Archive WADbyBK It’s a set of capsPhilip Grushkin (19211998) was a calligrapher, book jacket designer, and book designer. He studied calligraphy and book design under George Salter at Cooper Union, graduating in 1941. After a stint in the United States Army as a cartographer during the war, he set up as a freelance book jacket designer in New York. In 1956 Grushkin became an assistant book designer to Abe Lerner at World Publishing. Two years later he moved to Harry N. Abrams, Inc.,