Ivan Chermayeff's collages suggest personalities that grow out of envelopes and stamps, letterheads and labels, pebbels and Polaroids, all magically transformed into eyes, noses, mouths, ears and earrings, hats, and cigarettes. Some are sad, some angry, som ecomic, yet all are engaging and inventive. As Joseph Giovanni writes in this introductory essay, "These are elliptical works that, like puzzles, challenge us to make connections that Chermayeff has made, to bring the gragments into a whole. The wisdom of this wit is that his invention beckons us into our own invention. We are the participants in his creation." For anyone who likes to look beyond the obvious, this book is a source of endless amusements and inspiration." "Collages make it possible for everything to be something else." Ivan Chermayeff

With a preface by Joseph Giovannini