Bryan went on to design the Bicentennial Show Farewell to Olde England, for the South Street Seaport Museum. This major exhibition included several custom bulit dioramas, a multi-media program, and historical artifacts. The entire exhibit was designed as large portable panels for travel to other museums. To house the show, Bryan helped to restore a 200 year-old building that is part of the Seaport historic district.

Next came a three year consultancy for the Museum of Modern Art where he created the signage, books and promotional materials for dozens of exhibitions including the Cezanne, Picasso, Roualt, and Matisse shows. He also worked with the architect Philip Johnson to restore the museum’s original Franklin Gothic signage. He also designed the monthly members newsletter and several publications. This earned him the notice of the new editor of Saturday Review, a major cultural bi-weekly magazine. Bryan redesigned SR with a clean modern format that emphasized the fine art reproductions, and many photos on dance, music, travel, literature and cultural news.

After two years with SR the magazine was sold and he went on to Panorama, a glossy monthly published by TV Guide. Bryan worked with Herb Lubalin and Lou Dorfsman to create the publication as a flagship for Walter Annenberg, who later sold it.

Bryan moved on to Boating magazine at Ziff Davis Publishing. He was hired to redesign Boating from a small trailer-boat publication into an upscale yachting magazine. The repositioning proved highly successful as Boating moved to number one (from 256th place) in ad page growth for consumer magazines for two consecutive years.