Rudolph de Harak was a graphic and environmental designer and art director for Seventeen Magazine and teacher at Cooper Unio Yale and Parsons School of Design. He is a member of the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame. He created hundreds of posters, record covers and book jackets-including nearly 350 covers for McGraw-Hill and did illustrations for Esquire Magazine. His work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art as well as others. This alternate version for the March 1962 cover of Holiday Magazine features a flat design of a Minaret and the shape of a female in a striped black and white burqa with just the eyes showing. It is a deftly balanced and designed composition with the shape of the eyes being repeated in the gold structure on the right of the composition. de Harak was participation in the asetheic of the day. It was flat and simple minimalism and Bauhaus inspired. Other practionsers early 60's design were Paul Rand, Saul Bass, Alvin Lustig, Will Burtin , György Kepes and art director of Fortune magazine Walter Allner.
Rudolph de Harak, American, 1924–2002
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