My time at Goldsholl Design and Film Notes for an interview on the Goldsholls by Byron Grush My Background I had studied Graphic Design at the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana and went onto graduate school at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where I became the first graduate with a degree that read “Photography/Filmmaking.” I studied there under the famous avant-garde filmmaker, Gregory Markopolous. How that led to my joining Goldsholl & Associates I was studying art at a time (the sixties) when Pop Art was very big. In graphic design the big names were Saul Bass, Paul Rand, Charles and Ray Eames(who also did films), and basically anyone from the post-Bau Haus era who, like Mort and Millie, had studied with Lazlo Maholy-Nagy. So it was a transition from the 1930s Bau Haus and Russian Constructivism sensibilities into the psychedelic, experimental, new media-is-the-message attitudes. Film was a big part of this. So when I got my...
