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Czechoslovak Advertising Art after the War (Maria Netter)
Old Pictorial Peasant Art in Czechoslovakia (A. Hruby)
Ilias Ambrosiana. The Oldest Illustrated Secular Manuscript extant (William B. McDonald)
Abram Games (Ronald Tritton)
Pharmaceutical Advertising Design (V. Trasoff)
The House Organ and Public Relations (P.Arthur)
Alexander Steinlen. Children’s Illustrations (L. de Dardel)
Jiri Brdecka (Manuel Gasser)
Swiss Soldier Stamps (Willy Rotzler)
International Poster Competition (Eric Ross)

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Graphis 47, 1953. Cover design by Abram Games
Graphis 47, 1953. Cover design by Abram Games
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Elizabeth Resnick is a Professor Emerita, former chairperson of the Graphic Design Department, and current part-time faculty at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Massachusetts, since 1977. She ran her own independent Boston design studio from 1973 to 1996, working with many high-profile clients and is a passionate design curator who has organized seven comprehensive design exhibitions. I interviewed Elizabeth about her journey in the field, her early influences and some of the many items in her collection.
I have been reproached for this, and I will surely be reproached again. I have also been reproached for reading more and more obscure works whose readership must be limited to a handful of specialists and a few hobbyists like myself. It’s a heavy passion or a passion that sucks.

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Little is known about the talented designer Günther Glückert. Born during the 1930s, a period that proved less than conducive to nurturing youthful artistic endeavours, did not halt Glückert's path of becoming a talented designer.

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Crouwel was the successor to Willem Sandberg who used an avant-garde approach in his work, utilising torn-paper montage, mixing of sans serif and old Egyptian typefaces and often off-center positioning. Crouwel steered away from this artistic approach and implemented a cohesive design system and a strong identity that emulated the corporate identity boom of the 1950s and 60s.