Content includes:
TYPOGRAPHY IN ADVERTISING- Imre Reiner, Hungarian type designer and typographer, asks for plus a “pictorial” greater simplicity effect that is still best derived from old examples.
EKCO – The rapid growth of E. K. Cole Ltd., radio manufacturers, and their high standard of design forms the subject in the sixth of the series of articles on successful businesses of to-day, their methods of design, marketing and presentation.
ARCHITECT IN ADVERTISING – Francis Lederer, Austrian architect, suggests new ways in three dimensional design.
TRENDS – Advertising’s Open Door-” D.I.” becomes ” R.D.I.” Besides Mr. Therm -Design in Plastics-The New Bauhaus The Advertiser’s Dollar Printing by Curwen.
A STAR AND A CAR – Efficiency and design illustrated by the Mercedes-Benz car.
H. K. FRENZEL – Editor of Gebrauchsgraphik
DESIGNERS OF TODAY- JOHN BARKER
Two-colour article- Typography in Advertising
Ekco radio cabinet
From the graphic design archive:
From the graphic design archive:
From the graphic design archive:
From the graphic design archive:
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.
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Parallel Public is a new publication by Sara Blaylock, published by MIT Press. The book documents the East German artists pioneering work that made their country’s experimental art scene a form of (counter) public life.
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Book Reviews & Press Releases, Regional Histories
Both educators have a keen interest in multiscriptual design, Arabic type design, and graphic design and recently released A History of Arab Graphic Design. I contacted Bahia and Haythem to find out more.
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