Last week, former SVA faculty member James McMullan, who taught various illustration classes for over 30 years, was inducted into the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame. This week, we're honoring his place in another pantheon of graphic arts greats: the SVA Subway Series Hall of Fame. As seen with McMullan's video below, the Hall of Fame series features some of the College's most revered designers and faculty members reflecting on the posters they have created for SVA over the years and giving insight into their work and processes.

The videos are an outgrowth of the iconic, ongoing subway poster series, initiated by founder Silas Rhodes in the mid-1950s, wherein three times a year practicing faculty members designed promotional posters for the school, to be displayed expressly in New York City's subway stations. Subway Series artists have included Paula Scher, Steven Heller, Stefan Sagmeister, among many others; in addition to McMullan, the Hall of Famers celebrated thus far have been SVA's acting chairman of the board, Milton Glaser, as well as former faculty George Tscherny and Ivan Chermayeff. Executive Vice President Anthony P. Rhodes has served as creative director for the subway posters since 2007.

McMullan joined the SVA faculty in 1969, after a few years at Glaser and Seymour Chwast's legendary Push Pin Studios and right as Glaser was founding New York; McMullan played a key role in establishing the new publication's graphic personality. Though he subsequently contributed to the covers and pages of Time, Rolling Stone, Vogue, Esquire and many other outlets, he is perhaps best known for theater posters, in particular, his work for Lincoln Center.

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