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A French illuminated Manuscript of the XV. Century (Al Hoefliger
Picasso – and his latest Lithographs (Bernhard Geiser)
Contemporary Italian Engravers (Attilio Ruota)
The First UNO Poster Competition (Naef)
Danish Poster Artists (Kaj Borchsenius)
Jiri Trnka (Edwin Arnet)
French Reviews (W.H. Allner)
Mediaeval French Tapestry (G. Oeri)
Joseph Binder (Georgine Oeri)
Leoncillo Leonardi Ceramics (Gio Ponti)
Alex Steinweiss, His Columbia Album Covers (Georgine Oeri)
The Life and Death of Wax Works (Erich Kastner/Herbert List)
War and the Child (Charles Rosner)
Matchbox Label Design (Winifred Holmes)
Novel Technique in Chemical Display(C.F.O. Clarke)
The Tea Centre (C.F.O.Clarke)
Tadeusz Lipsky, The Paper Sculptor (C.F.O. Clarke)

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Graphis 19, 1947. Cover design by Pablo Picasso
Graphis 19, 1947. Cover design by Pablo Picasso
More graphic design artefacts
From the design archive:
From the design archive:
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More graphic design history articles
The stories of Norwich’s medieval merchants’ marks is being told in a new book and exhibition.

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Graphis is one of the industries most long-standing magazines. It was first published in 1944 and founded by Walter Herdeg and Walter Amstutz in Zurich, Switzerland. It was released bimonthly and was trilingual, with articles in English, French and German.
A few years ago the publicity department of Siam di Tella found a collaborator who early in his studies of architecture was attracted by the problems of visual art. His name is Guillermo González Ruiz he was born in Chascomus (Province of Buenos Aires) in 1937. Between 1957 and 1960 he received 18 awards in poster competitions, some of which were of particular importance.

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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.