MoMA Design Curator Mildred Constantine Passes Away

If you were tearing into the NY Times yesterday to get to everyone’s favorite annual Year in Ideas magazine feature, you may have missed the sad news that Mildred Constantine, a former curator at the Museum of Modern Art and one of the greatest champions of graphic design, passed away last week. Constantine is one of the major reasons poster design is taken seriously today and enjoys such a following, as she championed the then-overlooked elements of design, both with posters and other materials, during her time at the MoMA in the 50s, 60s, and 70s, as well as continuing to push for contemporary design as a necessary thing to collect, research, and appreciated well beyond her retirement.