Emil Antonucci

Emil Antonucci was a New York-based visual and sound artist, graphic artist, book designer, illustrator, publisher, and teacher. He designed graphics for government, institution, and corporate clients, taught at Parsons School of Design, and helped design covers and page layouts of various progressive Catholic publications including Commonweal and Church. Antonucci was born in 1929 in Brooklyn, New York to Italian immigrant parents. He studied art, calligraphy, and design at The Cooper Union. After he graduated in 1950, he worked as a freelance illustrator and book designer for publishers and designed graphics for public spaces in New York City including maps, information kiosks, and neighborhood and district logos. He won a Fulbright to study in Paris in 1955 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1958. He used the funds from the Guggenheim Fellowship to found a letterpress, The Hand Press. He would later develop a second press, Journeyman Press. His designs include the logo for the Four Seasons Hotel in 1959 and his clients for graphic design include Lincoln Center, Museum of Contemporary Craft, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Ford Foundation, and the Parsons School of Design. He died in 2006 in Brooklyn.