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Content includes:
Black Mountain College
The founding of the College by Lewis Shelley
The Hochschule at Ulm by Josef Albers
Albers’ ‘Graphic Tectonics’ by Irving Finkelstein
Brighton Festival Exhibition of Concrete Poetry
Exhibition notes and map
The early days of Concrete Poetry by Eugen Gomringer
What is Kinetism? by Lev Nusberg
Symmetry: Nature and the Plane by Charles Biederman
A Non-Aristotelian Creative Reality by Charles Biederman
The Coherences by Anselm Hollo
Great Little Magazines: No. 4, ‘Mecano’
Two Men by Kurt Schwitters
Towards a Constructive Poetry by I. K. Bonset
Manifesto on the Lawfulness of Sound by Raoul Hausmann

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Form, No.4, April 1967
Form, No.4, April 1967
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Rudolph de Harak designed over 50 record covers for Westminster Records as well as designing covers for Columbia, Oxford and Circle record labels. His bright, geometric graphics can easily be distinguished and recognised.

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The typographic designs produced for the National Theatre by Ken Briggs are not only iconic and depict the Swiss typographic style of the time, but remain a key example of the creation of a cohesive brand style.

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I first came across Kens work in the Unit Edition’s superb monograph, Structure and Substance, published in 2012. Although I had owned a few of the British industrial design magazines, Design, for a few years before, in which Ken had designed numerous covers for.
In the ambitious new monograph Rational Simplicity: Rudolph de Harak, Graphic Designer, Volume shines a light on the complete arc of the exceptionally rich and varied career of Rudolph de Harak, showcasing his vibrant, graphic, formally brilliant work, which blazed a colourful trail through the middle decades of the twentieth century.