Design Hero: Jacqueline Casey

Casey attended the Massachussetts College of Art where she attained her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree.

She is best known for her work for the Massachussett’s Institute of Technology from the 60’s through the 80’s.

While working at MIT, she collaborated with Muriel Cooper, another successful and visionary graphic designer.

Casey’s work is influenced by the Swiss grid concept and the modernist movement.

- Three Exhibitions

1979 - Master of Science Program in Technology and Policy

- Art Transition Poster

1971 - Goya, The Disasters of War

1990 - Jacqueline Casey An Exhibition of Selected Posters

1970 - Stop Oil Pollution

Swiss Influence + Abstraction

Top: 1980 - Generations: The Story of Building 20

Right: 1974 - MIT Open House

Transparency Negative Space

Left:

Clockwise from Left:

1970 - “Experienced secretaries—think about MIT” Poster

1964 - “American Women in Science and Engineering” Poster

1973 - Boston Visual Artists Union Poster

- Elijah. Mendelssohn Concert

- Art and Environment 1983 - Give Blood

Review

Open House

+ “Cooper and Casey at MIT.” MIT Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2017, spectrum.mit.edu/winter-2017/cooper-casey-at-mit.

+ Day, Artist Of The, and View My Complete Profile. Artist of the Day, October 10: Jacqueline Casey, American Graphic Designer. 10 Oct. 2017, visualdiplomacyusa.blogspot. com/2017/10/artist-of-day-october-10-jacqueline.html.

+ “The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art.” Google Books, books.google.nl/books?id=sPGdBxzaWj0C&redir_esc=y. Accessed 23 Oct. 2022.

+ Jacqueline Casey | Cary Graphic Arts Collection | RIT. www.rit. edu/carycollection/jacqueline-casey. Accessed 23 Oct. 2022.

+ “MIT, Graphic Design, and Me.” MIT Museum, 21 June 2022, mitmuseum.mit.edu/the-exchange/stories/mit-graphic-designand-me.

+ RIT Libraries | RIT. www.rit.edu/library. Accessed 22 Oct. 2022.

+ “The Moderns.” Google Books, books.google.nl/books?id=sGFgDgAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y. Accessed 23 Oct. 2022.

+ Tate. “Modernism.” Tate, www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/m/modernism. Accessed 23 Oct. 2022.

Sebastian Chapman