Content includes:
Design for showmanship by B. W. Galvin Wright
Instrument design for the Atomic Age
Fashion in design by Alec Davis
Style on two wheels by David Munro, MIMech E
Home sales up (D. Whitehead Ltd)
Design overseas (Swiss telephones)
News of new products
Carpet design criticised
Where craftsmen set the pace by Alec Gardner-Medwin
Industrial design abstracts
From the graphic design archive:
From the graphic design archive:
From the graphic design archive:
From the graphic design archive:
Last month (March 2022), I spoke to over fifty Graphic Design undergraduates about the archive and my passion for design history, after which the students had full access to items in the collection and participated in discourse amongst their peers and lecturers. As part of their critical studies unit, the students will be producing essays and content related to the impact, history and aesthetics of selected artefacts.
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Design Archive Feature, Illustration, Members Only Content, Regional Histories
Illustrated tourist brochures designed by Hans Schmandt. Despite his contributions to publicity design, there is not much information about Hans Schmandt. His clients included Deutsche Bahn and the Trans Europe Express.
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Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content, Regional Histories, Typography & Type Design
50 examples of Czech typography from Typografia Vol. XIX (1908). Czech commercial printing at the crossroads of Art Nouveau and early modernism, with work by Otokar Císař, Method Kaláb, and Mořic Novotný.
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