Born Peretz Rosenbaum, August 15, Brooklyn, New York
1929 – 1932
Education: Pratt Institute, New York
Education: Harren High School, New York
1932
Education: Parsons School of Design, New York
1933
Education: Art Students' League with George Grosz
1934
Illustrator: Metro Associated Services
1935
Design Assistant: George Switzer Studio
Freelance: Glass Packer magazine
Changes legal name from Peretz Rosenbaum to Paul Rand
1936 – 1941
Art Director: Apparel Arts and Esquire magazines
1937
Trademark: Wallace Puppets
1938 – 1945
Cover Designs: Direction magazine
1938
Trademark: Esquire magazine
1939
Instructor: New York Laboratory School
Design: New York World's Fair brochure, an insert to PM Magazine
Article: PM Magazine publishes first article about work
1940s
1941
Exhibition: Katherine Kuh Gallery, Chicago
Article: AD Magazine, written by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Trademark: Coronet Brandy
1941 – 1955
Art Director: William H. Weintraub Advertising Agency. Clients include: - Coronet Brandy - El Producto Cigar Company - Disney Hats - Dubonnet - Stafford Fabrics - Ohrbach's Department Store - Dunhill Clothiers - Kaufman Department Store - Olivetti - Architectural Forum
1942
Instructor: The Cooper Union, New York
Advertising: Stafford Fabrics
Advertising: Ohrbach's Department Store
Advertising: Kaufman Department Store
1943
Advertising: Architectural Forum
Trademark: Cresta Blanca Wine Company
1944
First Book Jacket: The Cubist Painters by Guillaume Apollinaire
Trademark: Helbros Watch Company
Design: Perfume bottle made with crystal and gold wire
1945
First Book Design: The Tables of the Law by Thomas Mann
Trademark: redesigns Borzoi Books
Trademark: Smith, Kline and French Laboratories
Begins designs for Architectural Forum
1946
Instructor: Pratt Institute, New York
Advertising: Ohrbach's
Advertising: Great Ideas of Western Man for Container Corporation of America
Advertising: Disney Hats (1946–1949)
1947
Author: Thoughts on Design
Exhibition: Composing Room, New York
Exhibition: National Museum, Stockholm
Advertising: Kaufman Department Store
Trademark: Robeson Cutlery Company, Shur Edge
1948
Exhibition: Philadelphia Museum of Art
Design: portfolio pairing writers and artists on the subject "Women for the Museum of Modern Art"
Commissions modernist architect Marcel Breuer to design a bungalow in Woodstock, NY, but the project is never realized.
1949
Design: "The House in the Museum Garden" poster for Museum of Modern Art
Design: cover for "Modern Art in Your Life"
Design: catalog for the Arensberg Collection for the Art Institute of Chicago
Trademark: Theatrical Architectural Television
Commissions Marcel Breuer to design modernist house in Harrison, NY. They part ways during early construction stages.
1950s
1950
Design: "No Way Out" movie poster
1951
Designs Weston, CT house
1952 – 1957
Advertising: El Producto, GHP Cigar Company
1953
Design: "Perspectives" covers
Award: House design voted one of ten best in America
1954
Exhibition: Contemporary Art Museum, Boston
Award: Voted one of the Ten Best Art Directors by New York Art Directors Club
Honorary Degree: Tama University, Tokyo
Design: RCA morse code advertisement
Design: Interfaith Day Movement posters
1955
Design: Book covers for Vintage Book and Random House publishers
Design: Magazine cover for "Idea", a Japanese visual arts magazine
1956 – 1991
Consultant: International Business Machines Corporation (IBM)
1956 – 1969
Professor: Yale University, New Haven, CT
1956
Illustator: I Know a Lot of Things
Trademark: IBM
Design: begins designing book covers for Bollingren Series and Pantheon Books
1957
Illustrator: Sparkle and Spin
1958
Exhibition: AIGA Gallery, New York
Exhibition: Art Directors' Club of Tokyo
Design: Book cover for H.L. Mencken's "Prejudices: A Selection"
Honorary Degree: Tama University, Tokyo
1959 – 1981
Consultant: Westinghouse Electric Corporation
1959
Trademark: Colorforms
Trademark: Consolidated Cigar Corporation
Design: Book and book jacket for "Paul Rand: His Works from 1946 to 1958"
1960s
1960
Trademark: Westinghouse
Author: Trademarks of Paul Rand
Exhibition: Pratt Institute, New York
1961 – 1996
Consultant: Cummins Engine Company
1961
Trademark: United Parcel Service (UPS)
1962
Trademark: American Broadcasting Company (ABC)
Trademark: IBM 8-bar & 13-bar variations
Trademark: Cummins Engine Company
Illustrator: Little 1
Citation: Philadelphia College of Art
1963
Design: "desi8n 63" poster for New York Art Directors Club
1964
Exhibition: Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh
Exhibition: School of Visual Arts, New York
Exhibition: Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Trademark: Atlas Crankshaft
Trademark: IIT Research Institute
1965
Author: Design and the Play Instinct
1966
Award: AIGA Gold Medal
Trademark: Ford Motor Company logo re-design proposal
1967
Design: DADA book jacket
1968
Exhibition: Temple University, Philadelphia
Trademark: U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau for Indian Affairs
Design: Catalog cover and poste for AIGA (green foreground, clown face)
Design: Redesigns Westinghouse packaging
1969
Exhibition: Louisiana Arts and Sciences Center, Baton Rouge
1970s
1970
Exhibition: IBM Gallery, New York
Exhibition: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Illustrator: Listen! Listen!
Design: IBM computer packaging
1972
Award: New York Art Directors Club Hall of Fame
1973
Award: Royal Designer for Industry, Royal Society, London
Trademark: Columbus Indiana Visitors' Center
1974 – 1993
Professor: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Honorary Degree: Philadelphia College of Art
Exhibition: 107 Grafici del AGI, Castello Sforzesco, Milan
1975
Design: Minute Man poster for U.S. Department of the Interior
1977 – 1993
Professor: Summer Design Program, Yale University and Brissago, Switzerland
1977
Exhibition: Wichita State University, Wichita, KS
Exhibition: Pratt Institute, New York
1979
Exhibition: Philadelphia College of Art
Honorary Degree: Philadelphia College of Art
1980s
1980
Trademark: Tipton Lakes Corporation
Design: IBM poster on conversation
1981
Design: Eye-Bee-M poster
Interview: AIGA Executive Director Carolyn Hightower for the Design Archive project
1982
Exhibition: Reinhold Brown Gallery, New York
Design: Cover for Annual of the AIGA Graphic Design USA 3
Trademark: AIGA (not used)
1983
Design: Poster for the Art Director's Club Hall of Fame Awards
1984
Exhibition: International Typeface Corporation Gallery, New York
Author: A Paul Rand Miscellany, Design Quarterly
Award: Type Director's Club Medal
1985
Author: Paul Rand: A Designer's Art
President's Fellow: Rhode Island School of Design
Honorary Degree: Pasons School of Design
Honorary Degree: Yale University
Trademark: Yale University Press
1986
Trademark: NeXT
Trademark: Connecticut Art Directors Club
Exhibition: Pratt Institute, New York
Exhibition: the Design Gallery, Matsuya Ginza, Tokyo
1987
Honorary Degree: University of Hartford, Connecticut