RIT Graphic Design Archive

Graphic Design Archive is a dynamic new Web site featuring 30 individual designer archives that have been steadily assembled at Rochester Institute of Technology for the past 25 years.

Administrated by RIT's Cary Graphic Arts Collection, located in the Wallace Center, the online portal documents the most important repository of primary resources material available in graphic design.

The launch of the long-planned Web portal was facilitated by numerous RIT faculty and staff.

They include Vignelli Distinguished Professor Roger Remington and Associate Professor Bruce Meader-faculty members at RIT's School of Design in the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences; Chandra McKenzie, associate provost and RIT Libraries director; and Kari Horowicz, library liaison for the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences.

"The Cary Graphic Design Archive is a collection of important archives of designers not all of whom were born in the United States but who have spent major portions of their careers working here in the field of graphic design," he explains.

"Collections started to be deposited at RIT in 1984 through the vision of Roger Remington, and began with a very important archive of Lester Beall, a significant designer in the 1950s and 1960s."