In Conversation: Seymour Chwast and Leonard S. Marcus

Renowned for a lifetime of innovative graphic design work, Seymour Chwast is a founding partner of Push Pin Studios, known for its iconic posters, editorial illustrations, book and magazine covers, and packaging design. Chwast’s work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Smithsonian’s Cooper Hewitt Design Museum. He has been exhibited internationally in Japan and Brazil and had a retrospective at the Louvre’s Musée des Arts Décoratifs in France. Photograph by Camille Murphy. 

Leonard S. Marcus is one of the world’s leading writers about children’s books and the people who create them. A founding trustee of The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, he is the author of Pictured Worlds, an international history of the illustrated book for young readers.