‘The brainchild of Koloman Moser, Alfred Roller, Josef Hoffmann, Bertold Loffler and others―the leading graphic artists of the Vienna Secession and the Wiener Werkstätte―Die Fläche (German for The Surface) laid out an extraordinary group vision for design through adventurous work by these designer-professors and more than 100 of their students. Packed with bold ideas for posters, advertisements, book covers, woodcut prints and much more, the result is an inexhaustibly rich sourcebook of graphic forms, modern ideas and technical experiments, all reflecting a reorientation in design practice and teaching that would resonate around the world. This full-size facsimile of all 14 issues of Die Fläche lets readers experience this rare gem as it was meant to be seen, while new essays and translations explore its significance.’
Corporate Identity & Branding, Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content, Regional Histories, Studios & Collectives
The identity manual consisted of 130 pages of information and brand usage with Arie J. Geurts heading up the project as design director, (who later headed up his own design studio in Los Angeles). The identity uses minimal colour and focuses on a consistent brand blue in all communications.
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Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content, Regional Histories, Typography & Type Design
While gathering all my type catalogues, brochures, and instructions on print processes, I found a little book titled 43 American Typographic Designers. I have included biographical notes from the designers featured in the exhibition accompanied by artefacts I have collected that they designed.
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Design Archive Feature, Magazines & Publishing, Members Only Content, Regional Histories
Jazz Journal was first published in 1946 by Sinclair Traill, who also had some of his photographs used on the covers. The magazine is now online but remained in print for several decades, as Britain's longest enduring jazz magazine.
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