Jacqueline Casey

Jacqueline Casey did more in her position as a designer at MIT than most people do in a lifetime. She began working at MIT in 1955, brought on board through the suggestion of her friend and former classmate Muriel Cooper, and remained at the Institute until her death in 1992. Casey helped pioneer the institute’s Office of Design Services and acted as director for the office from 1972 until 1989. Her posters for MIT are iconic; they’re elegant and energetic, clean and creative. Casey had a real talent for depicting concepts through simple forms and type. Her posters are still an inspiration to designers.

Examples of her work have been acquired for permanent collection by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, the USIA, and the Library of Congress. Her work is also represented in many graphic design magazines and annuals and in books on the history of graphic design

She was the recipient of the William J. Gunn Award in 1988 given by the Creative Club of Boston. She received an honorary doctorate of fine arts from the Massachusetts College of Art in 1990. She was appointed by the late President Bartlett A. Giamatti of Yale to the Visiting Committee of the Yale School of Graphic Design. She was a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale and of the American Institute of Graphic Arts.