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Content includes:
Graphis Celebrates its Tent Birthday (W. Herdeg)
The Restoration of Calligraphy(Paul Standard)
Medieval Yugoslav Frescos (O. Bihalji-Merin)
Riccardo Manzi (Leonardo Sinisgalli)
Eric Lancaster (Jean Picart le Doux)
UPA. A New Dimension for the Comic Strip (Georgine Oeri)
Louis Vivin (Charles Estienne)
The Earliest Known Colour Posters (B. Champigneulle)
Original Advertising for a Swiss Village Festival (Paul Wollenberger)

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Graphis 50, 1953. Cover design by Gottfried Honegger
Graphis 50, 1953. Cover design by Gottfried Honegger
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Advances in production and 1950s chewing gum marketing. From Wrigley's iconic "Spearman" ads to Hiroshi Ohchi's designs for Harris Chewing Gum.
Graphic design continues to be documented and an increase in individualised documentation and curated social media accounts are furthering our knowledge of design from a worldwide historic standpoint. I would not feel complete without the collected design that spans the shelves of my archive. It’s my identity, my passion and my hobby.

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The identity manual consisted of 130 pages of information and brand usage with Arie J. Geurts heading up the project as design director, (who later headed up his own design studio in Los Angeles). The identity uses minimal colour and focuses on a consistent brand blue in all communications.
To Have and To Hold, contains hundreds of bag designs collected during over half a century. The book is a must-buy for anyone interested in ephemera, the history of design or British high street history.