Design Archive Feature, Designer Profiles, Members Only Content, Regional Histories

• Netherlands
• Mid Century Modernism, Dutch Modernism

The Innovative Netherlands Stamps designed by Ootje Oxenaar in 1970

Ootje Oxenaar designed the summer stamps for the Netherlands using an assignment from De Nederlandsche Bank based on banknotes. The assignment resulted in the collaboration of Oxenaar, the printer, the laboratory and the banking specialist, in which they experimented with the design of securities on printed matter.

Design Archive Feature, Designer Profiles, Members Only Content, Regional Histories

• Switzerland
• Mid Century Modernism, International Typographic Style (Swiss Style)

Max Huber. Swiss Graphic Designer | 1919 – 1992

Max Huber was born in 1919 in Switzerland. He studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule (School of Arts and Crafts) in Zurich where he excelled in graphic design and photography.  Huber worked across advertising, packaging, design and industrial design. He had a distinctive style that skillfully blended bright hues with photomontage.

Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content, Movements

Manifestos on Kinetic Art

Kinetic art refers to art the depends on movement for its desired effect and is closely related to op art. Upon scanning a few of the inner inserts from the Kinetics exhibition catalogue from the Hayward Gallery, London, 1970, I came across these five small manifestos on kinetic art.