Jacqueline Casey (1927 – 1992)[1] was a graphic designer best known for the posters she created for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She was born in Quincy, Massachusetts. She studied for a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in fashion design and illustration at the Massachusetts College of Art (MassArt), graduating in 1949. After graduating, she had a number of jobs, including work in interior design and advertising.
In 1955, she was recruited by fellow MassArt alumna Muriel Cooper to work at the Office of Publications at MIT. In 1972, Casey became Director, taking over this position as her colleague joined the MIT faculty. The two women were among the few working at this professional level at MIT of the time.
During her tenure as Director, Casey became known for designing distinctive publicity posters for MIT events, working alongside Ralph Coburn and Dietmar Winkler. Casey's designs were influenced by the International Typographic Style recently developed in Switzerland, particularly designers such as Karl Gerstner, Armin Hofmann and Josef Müller-Brockmann.
Casey's posters generally consisted of a striking image or bold typography, accompanied by informational details in small text. She often used typographic wordplay and visual puns in her work. Speaking of her designs in 1988, she said: "My job is to stop anyone I can with an arresting or puzzling image, and entice the viewer to read the message in small type and above all to attend the exhibition." As well as being used for promotion of on-campus events and in MIT publications, Casey's work was exhibited at MIT, the Chelsea School of Art in London and the London College of Printing.
Casey retired from her role as director in 1989, but continued to work as a visiting scholar at the MIT Media Laboratory.
Casey's work is held in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Cooper-Hewitt Museum.
The MIT Museum mounted an exhibition of Casey's graphic work in 1992, and again in 2012. In addition to the MIT holdings, the Rochester Institute of Technology has a collection of 99 posters, donated posthumously at the designer's request.
In 1955, she was recruited by fellow MassArt alumna Muriel Cooper to work at the Office of Publications at MIT. In 1972, Casey became Director, taking over this position as her colleague joined the MIT faculty. The two women were among the few working at this professional level at MIT of the time.
During her tenure as Director, Casey became known for designing distinctive publicity posters for MIT events, working alongside Ralph Coburn and Dietmar Winkler. Casey's designs were influenced by the International Typographic Style recently developed in Switzerland, particularly designers such as Karl Gerstner, Armin Hofmann and Josef Müller-Brockmann.
Casey's posters generally consisted of a striking image or bold typography, accompanied by informational details in small text. She often used typographic wordplay and visual puns in her work. Speaking of her designs in 1988, she said: "My job is to stop anyone I can with an arresting or puzzling image, and entice the viewer to read the message in small type and above all to attend the exhibition." As well as being used for promotion of on-campus events and in MIT publications, Casey's work was exhibited at MIT, the Chelsea School of Art in London and the London College of Printing.
Casey retired from her role as director in 1989, but continued to work as a visiting scholar at the MIT Media Laboratory.
Casey's work is held in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Cooper-Hewitt Museum.
The MIT Museum mounted an exhibition of Casey's graphic work in 1992, and again in 2012. In addition to the MIT holdings, the Rochester Institute of Technology has a collection of 99 posters, donated posthumously at the designer's request.
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| 1964 MIT Symphony © 2017, Jacqueline Casey. All rights reserved. |
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| 1964, American Women in science and engineering A Symposium © 2017, Jacqueline Casey. All rights reserved. |
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| 1966, Humanities Series Concerts © 2017, Jacqueline Casey. All rights reserved. |
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| 1967 Miscellaneous Motions of Kinetic Sculpture Exhibition Poster © 2017, Jacqueline Casey. All rights reserved. |
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| 1967, Ocean Engineering Recruitment Poster, Ocean Engineering at MIT © 2017, Jacqueline Casey. All rights reserved. |
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| 1968 7 Montreal painters © 2017, Jacqueline Casey. All rights reserved. |
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| 1969 Lift equilibrium © 2017, Jacqueline Casey. All rights reserved. |
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| 1969, Artists and the scientific community © 2017, Jacqueline Casey. All rights reserved. |
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| 1969, MIT open house © 2017, Jacqueline Casey. All rights reserved. |
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| 1969. The moon show © 2017, Jacqueline Casey. All rights reserved. |
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| 1970 Stop Oil Pollution © 2017, Jacqueline Casey. All rights reserved. |
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| 1970, Six artists © 2017, Jacqueline Casey. All rights reserved. |
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| 1971 Goya, The disaster of war © 2017, Jacqueline Casey. All rights reserved. |
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| 1971, Medicine of the future © 2017, Jacqueline Casey. All rights reserved. |
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| 1972 Faculty-Student Exchange Program © 2017, Jacqueline Casey. All rights reserved. |
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| 1972 Octave of Prayer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1972 © 2017, Jacqueline Casey. All rights reserved. |
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| 1972. spring festival of music 1972 in honor of Klaus Liepmann © 2017, Jacqueline Casey. All rights reserved. |
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| 1973, Friedrich St.Florian Project © 2017, Jacqueline Casey. All rights reserved. |
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| 1974 MIT Open house © 2017, Jacqueline Casey. All rights reserved. |
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| 1975, 4 painters © 2017, Jacqueline Casey. All rights reserved. |
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| 1975, Cancer -symposium on the occasion of the dedication of the Seeley G. Mudd building, Massachusetts Institute of Technology © 2017, Jacqueline Casey. All rights reserved. |
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| 1978, Chemistry at MIT © 2017, Jacqueline Casey. All rights reserved. |
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| 1979, Coffee hour © 2017, Jacqueline Casey. All rights reserved. |
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| 1979, Ger Dekkers Exhibition Poster © 2017, Jacqueline Casey. All rights reserved. |
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| 1979. The computer - from counting to cognition © 2017, Jacqueline Casey. All rights reserved. |
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| 1980, Agnes Denes 1968-1980 © 2017, Jacqueline Casey. All rights reserved. |
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| 1981 body language © 2017, Jacqueline Casey. All rights reserved. |
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| 1982 Great Big Drawings © 2017, Jacqueline Casey. All rights reserved. |
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| 1982 Intimate Architecture- Contemporary Clothing Design © 2017, Jacqueline Casey. All rights reserved. |
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| 1983 Give blood © 2017, Jacqueline Casey. All rights reserved. |
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| 1984, Academic honesty - are our standards clear? © 2017, Jacqueline Casey. All rights reserved. |
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| 1984, Elijah - Felix Mendelssohn © 2017, Jacqueline Casey. All rights reserved. |
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| 1989 Messiah MIT © 2017, Jacqueline Casey. All rights reserved. |
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| 1989 Walking in the spirit © 2017, Jacqueline Casey. All rights reserved. |
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| 1989, Gospel concert at Kresge Auditorium, MIT © 2017, Jacqueline Casey. All rights reserved. |
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| 1990, Jacqueline Casey - an exhibition of selected posters in conjunction with the presentation of the honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts by the President and the Trustees of the Massachusetts College of Art © 2017, Jacqueline Casey. All rights reserved. |
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| Aesthetics of progress © 2017, Jacqueline Casey. All rights reserved. |
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| Art in civic scale © 2017, Jacqueline Casey. All rights reserved. |
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| Boston Visual Artists Union © 2017, Jacqueline Casey. All rights reserved. |
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| © 2017, Jacqueline Casey. All rights reserved. |
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| © 2017, Jacqueline Casey. All rights reserved. |
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| © 2017, Jacqueline Casey. All rights reserved. |
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| © 2017, Jacqueline Casey. All rights reserved. |
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| © 2017, Jacqueline Casey. All rights reserved. |
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Hello! This is a very good blog post synopsis of Jacqueline S. Casey. There is one incorrect statement that I would like to correct as I others use this blog to create their own and I see this mistake often repeated: When Muriel Cooper recruited her MassArt classmate Jacqueline Shepard in 1955, Cooper was a staff designer, not a director. John Mattill was the director of MIT's Office of Publications. Cooper left the office on a Fulbright grant to Italy in September 1957, and Ralph Coburn was hired in her place. In 1972, the office became Design Services with Jacqueline S. Casey as the director. Cooper returned to MIT in 1967 as the design director of the MIT Press.
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