Paul Rand. Rand was educated at the Pratt Institute (1929–1932), Parsons The New School for Design (1932–33), and the Art Students League (1933–? 1) Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Rand was inducted into the New York Art Directors Club Hall of Fame in 1972. Biography[edit] Early life and education[edit] Paul Rand (Peretz Rosenbaum) was born on August 15, 1914 in Brooklyn, New York.[1] He embraced design at a very young age, painting signs for his father's grocery store as well as for school events at P.S. 109.[2] Rand's father did not believe art could provide his son with a sufficient livelihood, and so he required Paul to attend Manhattan's Harren High School while taking night classes at the Pratt Institute, Rand was largely "self-taught as a designer, learning about the works of Cassandre and Moholy-Nagy from European magazines such as Gebrauchsgraphik Early career[edit] Corporate identities[edit] Eye Bee M poster designed by Rand in 1981 for IBM.
Later years[edit] Criticism[edit] Paul-Rand.com :: American Modernist :: 1914-1996. Paul Rand Film :: Imaginary Forces :: Featured Work. Conversation with Paul Rand. 1993 interview re: Paul Rand and Steve Jobs. Angry Paul Rand (AngryPaulRand) Amazon.