{"id":301,"date":"2020-04-21T19:50:59","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T19:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/dallasmckinnon\/?p=301"},"modified":"2020-04-21T19:50:59","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T19:50:59","slug":"advertising-art-director-bradbury-thompson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/dallasmckinnon\/2020\/04\/21\/advertising-art-director-bradbury-thompson\/","title":{"rendered":"Advertising Art Director – Bradbury Thompson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Grandad Brad<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Bradbury Thompson<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Bradbury Thompson was born in Topeka, Kansas on March 25, 1991. While he attended Washburn College to pursue a degree in economics, he would also work creatively during his schooling years. He acted as the yearbook editor and designer of his college and also received a minor in art. Funnily enough, he also designed the school\u2019s mascot, The Ichabod.
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The Ichabod<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

His career started when he moved to New York to design the catalog for the 1939 World\u2019s Fair. He would then do work for West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company\u2019s arts journal where he would heavily experiment with print, ultimately designing 61 issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mademoiselle Magazine<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

In 1945, he would become art director for Mademoiselle Magazine. He would work this position for 15 years.
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Thompson would also go on to influence stamp design with his work in the Citizen Stamp Advisory Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stamps by Bradbury Thompson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

He would also go onto design the typeface Alphabet 26 or the \u201cmonoalphabet\u201d as it was also known.
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Alphabet 26<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

More selected works<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Grandad Brad Bradbury Thompson was born in Topeka, Kansas on March 25, 1991. While he attended Washburn College to pursue a degree in economics, he would also work creatively during his schooling years. He acted as the yearbook editor and designer of his college and also received a minor in art. Funnily enough, he also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9746,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-142-r"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/dallasmckinnon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/dallasmckinnon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/dallasmckinnon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/dallasmckinnon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9746"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/dallasmckinnon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/dallasmckinnon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/dallasmckinnon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions\/302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/dallasmckinnon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/dallasmckinnon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/dallasmckinnon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}