Charles C. S. Dean

Charles C. S. Dean emigrated to the US in 1925 from Queensland, Australia. He was first in San Francisco and then in Chicago. In Chicago he worked for Kuppenheimers, designing packaging and other materials. He relocated to New York and studied at the Art Students League and the American and National Academies of Design. After a year studying in Europe he returned to New York and worked for Newell-Emmett advertising and spent evenings studying at NYU and the Beaux Arts School of Design. He designed trademarks, brochures, packaging and booklets. He was responsible for the redesign of Publisher's Weekly in 1942. He later went back to Chicago to teach at the Chicago Art Institute.