This issue devoted to the color blue included references to bluejay, blue sky, blue crab, blue collar, blue whale, blue blood, blue suede shoes, bluegrass, blue dahlia, Bluebeard, blue movie, blue sea, Blue Cross, blue pencil, blue serge suite, blue nose. Chwast’s art described a romance between blue clouds, Friedman photographed four women in a ʻblue mood,” and Barbara Sandler’s Billie Holiday illustrated William Gass’s “Dissertation on the Shades of Meaning in a Single Hue.
Started by Push Pin Studios as a freeform publication sent to friends and clients in 1957, the experimental and groundbreaking Push Pin Graphic, quickly developed a dedicated following, eventually running for 23 years and 86 issues. Changing to a 32-page bimonthly in 1976, and continuing publication until 1980
Art directed and designed by Chwast, the featured articles and fiction edited by Ken Robbins supported the theme for each issue. Illustrations by Chwast, as well as the work of other award-winning illustrators represented by Push Pin, also appeared in every Graphic
