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Gebrauchsgraphik, 9, 1969

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Content includes:
Remigius Netzer – Natural Science as a Fine Art On the Drawings and Paintings by Cornelia Honegger
Has Kuh – The Lucas Award 1968, Results of a School Contest
G. Lob – INNOVATION, the advertising of a Belgium Department Store
Walter Plata – Not All Advertising is Sh…! Graphic Designers‘ Protest
Liselotte Hansmann – Pipe-Markers‘ Labels from Gouda
Walter Keim – New title Designs for Sheet Music
J.J. de Lucio-Meyer – Avantgarde «Nova» The profile of a Ladies‘ Journal

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  • Format: Magazine
  • Year: 1969
  • Client/Publisher: Bruckmann Verlag
  • Size: 230mm x 297mm

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