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Expo 58 (Dr. Hans Curjel, Zurich)
Legends of the Sea (Charles Rosner, London)
Saul Mandel (Stanley Roberts, London)
R.O. Blechman (Kim Taylor, Zurich)
P.L.Giovannetti. Beware of the Dog (Hans Pflug, Zurich)
Walter & Nalad Einsel (Alexander Nesbitt, Long Island)
Giovanni Battista Bracelli. Bizarrie di varie Figure (Jack Werner Stauffacher, San Francisco)

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Graphis 78, 1958. Cover design by George Giusti.
Graphis 78, 1958. Cover design by George Giusti.

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Victorian Graphic Design left a mark on both British and American design history. In Britain, the ornate embellishments served as a symbol of prosperity and cultural values. Meanwhile, America embraced the combination of various design elements to navigate the complexities of a rapidly changing society driven by industrialisation and consumerism.

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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.
Among the young graphic artists of Berlin, who set to work after the war, Hans Adolf Albitz and Ruth Albitz-Geiß can claim special attention. In a short time, at a period when economic conditions were pretty unfavourable, they worked themselves so to the fore that their names came to mean something in Berlin publicity, and in western Germany their posters are known and appreciated, too.
The background of Kamekura's mark designs is his boldness in eliminating all the waste, combining simplification derived from Japanese traditional family crests and Western intellectual mechanics of formation with a sharp modern sense of composition.