Printed at Lompa Printing, Albany, CA.
Editor and designer: Rudy VanderLans.
Typeface designs: Zuzana Licko.
CONTENTS:
Mail.
Rudy VanderLans, Expatriates (introduction).
Rudy VanderLans, interview with Robert Nakata.
Two posters by Robert Nakata and Allen Hori (stapled into center).
Rudy VanderLans, interview with Allen Hori.
From the graphic design archive:
From the graphic design archive:
From the graphic design archive:
From the graphic design archive:
Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content, Poster Design
A brief summary of a poster designer’s tasks from the late 1930s. I have illustrated the article with a selection of scanned posters from Cooper’s book.
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Advertising Design, Design Archive Feature, Illustration
“They’ll never stand for that” and “It’s too modern” are, as George Plante aptly puts it, the restraintive thoughts which beset a commercial artist who tries to let himself go.
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Design Archive Feature, Advertising Design, Members Only Content
Omnibus was Published by the journalism working group of the Technical University of Braunschweig. A square publication measuring 290mm. The publication included features on politics, arts and culture. With advertisements carefully selected to be in keeping with the visual aesthetic. Content also included exhibition information and a fine example of concrete poetry, among artists such as Schröder-Sonnenstern and Sine Hansen.
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