Das Buchgewerbe, 5, 1952

Trade journal for the graphics and paper processing industry

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Das Buchgewerbe
Das Buchgewerbe was a German trade journal focused on book production, typography, printing, and publishing, combining graphic design with the book industry.

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Das Buchgewerbe, 5, 1952
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Abstract Publicity – Self-Advertisements of the Stuttgarter Nachrichten by Fritz Seitz, 1963

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The graphic designer had to create a series of ads whose new publicity effects were to confirm or accentuate the already existing • image • of the paper. In this case, the planning was not based on a would-be psychological analysis of the reading public.

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