Featuring: Alex Steinweiss – Art Director for Columbia Records, Herbert Bayer’s Design Class, Designs in Glass by Contemporary Artists from the Steuben Collection, Jean Cocteau – Salvador Dali – Matisse – Georgia O’Keefe – and more.
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Advertising Design, Design Archive Feature
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.
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Book Reviews & Press Releases, Corporate Identity & Branding
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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Advertising Design, Design Archive Feature, Ephemera, Members Only Content
A collection of matchbox labels from around the world. Graphic design history of one of advertising's smallest and most overlooked formats.
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