Ken White Collection

Collection

Call Number: AOB 38

Scope and Contents

The Ken White Collection documents the graphic design career of Ken White from 1964 to 1985 through examples of publications and ephemera he designed for specific clients. White worked for a variety of clients, including IBM, Better Homes and Gardens, and the Phoenix Art Museum.

Dates

1964-1986

Creator

White, Ken

Conditions Governing Access

The materials are open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Jo Ann White, 1986.

Arrangement

Arranged in two series: I. Clients, 1964-1985. II. Personal, 1986.

Extent

1 Linear Feet (3 boxes)

Language of Materials

English

Catalog Record

A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog

Persistent URL

https://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/arts.aob.0038

Additional Description

Overview

Biographical / Historical

Ken White was born in Kansas City, MO, in 1935. He majored in commercial art at the University of Kansas, but left to serve in the Marines from 1956-58. After, he attended the Kansas City Art Institute and received his BFA in 1960. In 1959 he married Jo Ann Johnson. They had a daughter, Wendy, in 1960, and a son, Kenneth, in 1964. White worked for the Meredith Publishing Company from 1960-65. He then attended the MFA program at Yale University, receiving his degree in 1967. He then worked for IBM until 1981, and various other companies, until he became the Associate Professor of Graphic Design at Arizona State University in 1984. He died in 1985.