A photo of young Barbara Solomon, looking left

Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, 1955.

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born in San Francisco

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completed training as a ballet and flamenco dancer

Designers at Sea Ranch: Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, Charles Moore, Al Boeke and Leslie Schenk

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married Californian experimental film director Frank Stauffacher

Early photograph of designers at Sea Ranch: Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, Charles Moore, Al Boeke and Leslie Schenk. October 28, 1963. © Architectural Archives, School of Design, University of Pennsylvania.

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moved to Switzerland after her husband’s death to study graphic design under Armin Hoffman

Barbara Stauffacher Solomon at Sea Ranch, circa 1965. © Architectural Archives, School of Design, University of Pennsylvania.

 

Barbara Stauffacher Solomon standing near the wooden house with an exit sign

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Ram's horns (Sea Ranch logo)

created the Supergraphics mural at Sea Ranch, California

 

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Scanlan's magazine cover

Scanlan’s Monthly Magazine, volume 1, № 4, June 1970.

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worked as an art director at Scanlan’s Monthly magazine

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published the brochure Green Architecture: Notes on the Common Ground

Sign for the 68th Street–Hunter College station at the New York City Subway

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created identity and signage for Ulrich Franzen’s Hunter College in New York

Sign for the 68th Street–Hunter College station at the New York City Subway made by Barbara Stauffacher Solomon in 1984.

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created the Ribbon of Light installation on the Embarcadero Promenade in San Francisco

Book cover with stylized letters 'W', 'H' and 'Y'

Cover of Why? Why not? by Barbara Stauffacher Solomon.

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published the book Why? Why Not?

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Visions Not Previously Seen, a film about Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, was released

Barbara Stauffacher Solomon with a Sea Ranch logo

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Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, a still is from Christian Bruno's 2018 short film Visions Not Previously Seen: The Groundbreaking Design Work of Barbara Stauffacher Solomon.

had solo exhibition at SFMOMA

Created with Sketch.

i designed good covers for many questionable commodities. i worked fast and well and my projects came in at or below the budget. i flattered the men, got paid, and then went home to cook dinner. —barbara stauffacher solomon

A caricature depicting a blonde girl sitting next to a yak

before basel

Barbara Solomon was born in San Francisco. During her adolescence she trained as a dancer and studied painting at the California School of Fine Arts. Later she married Frank Stauffacher, an experimental film director, best known for introducing European avant-garde techniques to American viewers. From 1948 to 1955 Barbara studied various subjects, including history, painting, ballet, and philosophy. In 1955 her husband died from a brain tumor, leaving Barbara to care for their daughter Chloe, then three years old.

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