Alvin Eisenman (June 18, 1921 – September 3, 2013)[1] was an American graphic designer and educator throughout the last half of the 20th century.
He remained the director of that program until his retirement in 1990, at which point he was succeeded by Sheila Levrant de Bretteville.
Raised in rural DuBois, Pennsylvania, Eisenman did his undergraduate work in graphic arts at Dartmouth College.
For the early program, Eisenman drew faculty from the Royal College of Art in London (as part of a faculty exchange system) and recruited liberal arts graduates from Yale, Harvard and the Rhode Island School of Design.
The Yale graphic design program in the 1950s was successful in bringing together established and upcoming designers such as Paul Rand, Herbert Matter, Armin Hofmann, Bradbury Thompson, Wolfgang Weingart, Lorraine Ferguson, Josef Albers, Alan Fletcher [1], Lester Beall and Alexey Brodovitch [2] Archived 2016-03-10 at the Wayback Machine.