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A Cross-Section of British Press Advertising. A survey of recent Press advertising, with comments and suggestions
Humour in Advertising. J. W. Cassels, Advertising Manager of Moss Bros., a well-known London firm of outfitters, gives his experiences and his views on its possibilities and pitfalls
Plastics. The manifold possibilities of plastics, demonstrated by reproductions of prize-winning displays in Modern Plastics ” competition
Fashion and the Painter. Vertés, painter and fashion illustrator, tells how the fashion artist came into being
D.I. The new distinction conferred by The Royal Society of Arts, and its first recipients
‘Sunday Best’ in the Local Shop Window. The Reading Window Dressing Competition and its prize-winning windows

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Art and Industry 127, January 1937
Art and Industry 127, January 1937
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In Rau's case, the combination of graphic design and photo produces a particularly positive result, since he uses the photo not so much as an object of representation but rather as a suggestive means of expression.
I have always loved the design work created for Olivetti. The colourful midcentury designs by Italian designer Giovanni Pintori, the minimal typographic poster by Swiss designer Walter Ballmer and my personal favourite the 1959 poster for Olivetti designed by Herbert Bayer. I recently found out Triest Verlag released a new book, Visual identity and branding at Olivetti which contains further work by Xanti Schawinsky, Renato Zveteremich, Ettore Sottsass, Hans von Klier, Egidio Bonfante and Walter Ballmer.
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In the late 1950s, Hans W. Brose agency, with designers Pierre Mendell, Michael Engelmann, and Klaus Oberer, crafted a compelling, colourless campaign for Bols.