Content includes:
Posters from the World Exposition
People, civilization, and culture – Considerations on design / Ryuichi Hamaguchi
The person and work of Kazumasa Nagai / Tadanori Yokoo
From the exhibition of contemporary American living art / Yoshiaki Inui
Nikke posters – Fragments of Japanese advertising art history ⑨ / Hiroshi Hara
ONO Jin ④ / Takashi Ono
Display at the Finnish architecture exhibition / Kenji Fujimori
Design digest
Self-portrait of a late wartime generation – Designer’s three-way mirror / Takao Imazu
Design using screens and apertures ② – Discovering visual design through printing technology ③ / Dai Nippon Printing
From the graphic design archive:
From the graphic design archive:
From the graphic design archive:
Typography & Type Design, Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content, Regional Histories
60 examples of Czech typography from Typografia Vol. 23 (1912). Czech commercial printing and book design as Secession ornament progressed to early modernist typography, with work by Jindra Dvořáček, Methoděj Kaláb, Alois Chvála and many more.
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Ken was born in 1929, in Southampton and grew up in a small market town in North Devon. He was a principled man, with strong values and views against the hyper-consumerism we live with today. Ken studied at the London Central School of Arts and Crafts in the 1950s and was taught by Herbert Spencer, Anthony Froshaug and Jesse Collins. Whilst at the School he studied alongside designers Ken Briggs, Alan Fletcher and Colin Forbes.
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Advertising Design, Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content, Regional Histories
Wolfgang Bäumer's advertising design for Bayer, Klöckner Works and the Lottery. His adaptable design aesthetic alongside his skills of convening messaging through visuals are fantastic examples of mid-century German graphic design.
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