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Emil Preetorius – The Art of the Small Format · Annual Report of the Artistic Advisory Board of the German Federal Postal Services for 1960
J.J. Meyer – Looking at Shell in the Press. Advertising Campaign of the Shell International Petroleum Company
Claudia Persson – Bottle Tickets
Eberhard Hölscher – Rolf Harder, Canada – Graphic Advertising Art
Remigius Netzer – My Uncle Benjamin · On Fritz Fischer’s Illustrations of Claude Tillier
Eberhard Hölscher – Alfred Resch Posters and Advertisements
Ludwig Ebenhöh – Ravené Steel Corporation · Results of a Contest

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Gebrauchsgraphik, 2, 1961
Gebrauchsgraphik, 2, 1961
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Ken was born in 1929, in Southampton and grew up in a small market town in North Devon. He was a principled man, with strong values and views against the hyper-consumerism we live with today. Ken studied at the London Central School of Arts and Crafts in the 1950s and was taught by Herbert Spencer, Anthony Froshaug and Jesse Collins. Whilst at the School he studied alongside designers Ken Briggs, Alan Fletcher and Colin Forbes.

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Both the And So To Embroider & And So to Sew bulletins were published by the Needlework Development Scheme. Established in 1934 and operating until 1961, the scheme was a partnership between educational establishments (Scottish art schools, Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow) and industry.

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The best poster designs from Die besten Plakate des Jahres 1957 with a translated foreword by Walter Kern. Featuring the work of J. Müller-Brockmann, Gottlieb Soland, Mary Vieira and Celestino Piatti.
"Rudy is one of the unsung pioneers of American mid-century modernist graphic design. He had a unique and definitive point of view that was really never celebrated. This may have been attributed to his strict adherence to the formal principles of modernism and the International Typographic Style."