• IdentificationMSPort97
  • Title
    • Allen Porter papers MSPort97
    • Porter, Allen papers
  • PublisherSpecial Collections
  • LanguageEnglish
  • RepositorySpecial Collections
  • Physical Description1.0 linear foot
  • Date1946-1995
  • AbstractThe Allen Porter papers include personal correspondence, photographs, greeting cards, clippings, brochures, advertisements, and an audio cassette tape, as well as items from institutions affiliated with Porter. Materials related to the International Council of Graphic Design Associations (ICOGRADA), Institute of Design, Society of Typographic Arts, and the University of Illinois at Chicago include course outlines, minutes, reports, sketches, and clippings. These papers also include booklets, fliers, and postage stamps that commemorate the Bauhaus movement.
  • OriginationPorter, Allen, b. 1926

Old Resource ID was APorter

Allen Porter (b. 1926) is a prominent graphic designer, photographer, teacher, and former student of the New Bauhaus/Institute of Design in Chicago. Porter has designed exhibitions, marketing communications, packaging, corporate presentations, and helped to construct new corporate identities. His work has been exhibited at the Bruce Silverstein Gallery in New York and the Robert Henry Adams Fine Arts Gallery in Chicago.

The Allen Porter papers include personal correspondence, photographs, greeting cards, clippings, brochures, advertisements, and an audio cassette tape, as well as items from institutions affiliated with Porter. Materials related to the International Council of Grapic Design Assocations (ICOGRADA), Institute of Design, Society of Typographic Arts, and the University of Illinois at Chicago include course outlines, minutes, reports, sketches, and clippings. These papers also include booklets, fliers, and postage stamps that commemorate the Bauhaus movement.

Allen Porter donated these materials to the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1997.

Allen Porter papers, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Illinois at Chicago

  • NamesPorter, Allen, b. 1926 -- Archives
  • Subject
    • Chicago Design History.
    • Graphic arts.
  • Geographic Coverage
    • Illinois--Chicago.
    • United States.