By David Jury (Editor, Designer), Douglas Sandberg (Photographer)
‘book art object is a record of the first biennial Codex Book Fair and Symposium: “The Fate of the Art,” Berkeley, California, 2007. The event showcased contemporary artist books and fine press and fine art editions produced by some of the world’s most esteemed printers, designers, book artists, and artisans. The foreword is written by Peter Rutledge Koch, and David Jury provides an introduction to the subject. This book contains 448 pages with 735 color images, presenting the work of artists, designers, printers, and publishers from all parts of the world.’
Advertising Design, Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content, Regional Histories
As a chemist, I have an obligation to be curious – I grab a stack of our chemical journals and start with the advertising section. I start it, the walk through the sand. I don’t want to deny some oases. But soon I’m bored and tired.
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I have known Rob for over a decade and I have been a huge admirer of his work. He specialises in reverse gilded glass sign making, typographic murals and traditional sign-writing.
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Advertising Design, Design Archive Feature
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.
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