Philip Grushkin: A Designer’s Archive WADbyBK There was a time

There was a time

This slim volume is your chance to savor some of her tasteful typography

Leonard Baskin

We’re not exactly sure why we’re bothering with this one

Philip Grushkin: A Designer’s Archive WADbyBK There was a timePhilip 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.,