Design of Time:
Ten Years of Cummings & Good Calendars
by Jan Cummings Good and Peter Good
Dodd Research Center Gallery and Corridor
Curator: Suzanne Zack
For more than three decades the award-winning graphic design
team Cummings & Good has created compelling design
solutions for Fortune 500 companies, arts organizations, educational
institutions, and special events. Based in Chester, Connecticut,
principals Janet Cummings Good and Peter Good earned their
B.F.A. degrees at UConn; later in their careers they developed the
University’s identity system.
Their work has been widely
recognized both professionally and
as fine art in galleries and exhibits
across the country and overseas.
Most recently, the Connecticut Art
Directors Club and the American
Institute of Graphic Artists
honored them as “Design
Legends.” Working collaboratively
with their distinct skill-set, the two
partners provide a comprehensive
approach to each design challenge, always with the intent of
engaging the viewer.
The exhibit Design of Time is a survey of
Cummings & Good’s annual effort to make
the ordinary calendar a showcase of imagery,
letterforms, illustration and literary
quotations. The process, and why this
talented team continually produce the
calendar, is best explained by Peter Good:
“The calendar series was born of our
passion for combining words and images
to create evocative notations that apply to
a theme. It is a labor of love for art,
language and print, a month at a time, and
has become a ritual of inspiration,
stimulating our intellectual preoccupations and our visual craft.
There are no stylistic limitations beyond the vertical structure of
the monthly form. Like notes on a musical register for composers,
the tall thin format allows a diverse array of techniques to express
an aspect of the theme.”
| 
