These one-colour forms have a playful but structured aesthetic through their geometric forms, they remind me of the abstract line drawings of Picasso blended with Jan Tschichold and the New Typography.
Decade/s: 1950s
Volkswagen commissioned a fantastic range of graphic designers, including Wolf Zimmermann, Hans Looser and Michael Engelmann. The designers amplified the brand image of Volkswagen with strikingly modern designs.
Many influential British designers have made their names in the history books. Abram Games, Alan Fletcher, Tom Eckersley and Derek Birdsall, to name a few. But one designer that has always influenced me, not only as inspiration from their design output, but as an example of the role of a designer and the importance of having strong ethics, is Ken Garland. He is known for his innovative and socially responsible approach to graphic design and his involvement in the design community through his teaching, writing and activism. In the second instalment of this series, I will discuss Ken Garland's magazine work from my collection.
Decade/s: 1950s
Among the young graphic artists of Berlin, who set to work after the war, Hans Adolf Albitz and Ruth Albitz-Geiß can claim special attention. In a short time, at a period when economic conditions were pretty unfavourable, they worked themselves so to the fore that their names came to mean something in Berlin publicity, and in western Germany their posters are known and appreciated, too.
Design Artefacts from this decade
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From the design archive:
- Format: Magazine
- Designer/s: Theo Crosby
- Year: 1959
From the design archive:
- Format: Bulletin
- Designer/s: Unknown
- Year: 1950s
From the design archive:
- Format: Magazine
- Designer/s: William and Caroline Harris
- Year: 1959
From the design archive:
- Format: Magazine
- Year: 1951
From the design archive:
- Format: Bulletin
- Designer/s: Unknown
- Year: 1950s
From the design archive:
- Format: Book
- Designer/s: Max Bill
- Year: 1951
From the design archive:
- Format: Magazine
- Designer/s: Matthew Leibowitz
- Year: 1957
From the design archive:
- Format: Magazine
- Designer/s: Antoni Clavé
- Year: 1951
From the design archive:
- Format: Bulletin
- Designer/s: Unknown
- Year: 1950s
From the design archive:
- Format: Exhibition Catalogue
- Designer/s: Armin Hofmann
- Year: 1957
From the design archive:
- Format: Magazine
- Designer/s: Huguette & Etienne Bucher Cromieres
- Year: 1954
From the design archive:
- Format: Magazine
- Designer/s: Rudolph de Harak
- Year: 1957
From the design archive:
- Format: Magazine
- Designer/s: Ken Garland
- Year: 1956
From the design archive:
- Format: Magazine
- Designer/s: Benno Wissing
- Year: 1959
From the design archive:
- Format: Magazine
- Designer/s: Hiroshi Ohchi
- Year: 1954
From the design archive:
- Format: Magazine
- Designer/s: Lou Bonin-Tschimoukov
- Year: 1951
From the design archive:
- Format: Book
- Designer/s: Celestino Piatti
- Year: 1958
From the design archive:
- Format: Folded sheet
- Designer/s: Jean Carlu
- Year: 1950s
From the design archive:
- Format: Book
- Designer/s: Otto Treumann
- Year: 1954
From the design archive:
- Format: Advertisement
- Designer/s: Giovanni Pintori
- Year: 1959
From the design archive:
- Format: Magazine
- Designer/s: Imre Reiner
- Year: 1957
From the design archive:
- Format: Exhibition Catalogue
- Designer/s: Müller-Blase
- Year: 1955
From the design archive:
- Format: Bulletin
- Designer/s: Unknown
- Year: 1950s
From the design archive:
- Format: Book
- Designer/s: Pierre Monnerat
- Year: 1954
From the design archive:
- Format: Magazine
- Designer/s: Aldo Guirgola, Pierre Kleykamp and Rolf Strub
- Year: 1956
From the design archive:
- Format: Book
- Designer/s: Walter Allner
- Year: 1951
From the design archive:
- Format: Exhibition Catalogue
- Year: 1952
From the design archive:
- Format: Magazine
- Designer/s: Oldřich Hlavsa
- Year: 1957
From the design archive:
- Format: Magazine
- Designer/s: Oldřich Hlavsa
- Year: 1953
From the design archive:
- Format: Magazine
- Designer/s: Takashi Kono
- Year: 1954
From the design archive:
- Format: Magazine
- Designer/s: De Floris
- Year: 1955
From the design archive:
- Format: Bulletin
- Designer/s: Unknown
- Year: 1950s
From the design archive:
- Format: Book
- Designer/s: Herbert Bayer
- Year: 1953
From the design archive:
- Format: Magazine
- Year: 1957
