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Vintage Ad Browser. BirdWatching. Design blogs. Revalue the dollar. How art director Herb Lubalin got. How art director Herb Lubalin got his illustrator friends to make money The third issue of Avant-Garde, May 1968, ran an attention-grabbing feature entitled ‘Revaluation of the Dollar: 19 Artists Design a New One-Dollar Bill.’ You can see the magazine’s cover (below) in ‘Up close and tight’, the Eye 75 feature about Avant-Garde’s legendary art director Herb Lubalin. Avant-Garde, published and edited by Ralph Ginzburg and art directed by Lubalin, commissioned friends and contemporaries such as Seymour Chwast, Bob (R.

O.) Here follow a selection of designs from Avant-Garde no. 3. Top: (l to r) designs by Tom Carnese; Gerry Gersten; and Lubalin himself. Above: (top to bottom) Ernie Smith; Etienne Delessert; Bob Blechman. Above: (top to bottom) John Alcorn, (1935-92); Lionel Kalish; Edward Gorey (1925-2000). Above: (top to bottom): 1. Below: spreads from Eye 75. Today and tomorrow.

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WOWGREAT. But does it float.