Book Reviews & Press Releases

Design after Capitalism: Transforming Design Today for an Equitable

How design can transcend the logics, structures, and subjectivities of capitalism: a framework, theoretical grounding, and practical principles. A new book published by MIT Press written by Matthew Wizinsky.

Design Archive Feature, Designer Profiles, Members Only Content, Regional Histories

• Netherlands
• Mid Century Modernism, Dutch Modernism

Dick Elffers and his 1972 Holland Festival and Floriade stamp designs

Dick Elffers, had been the chosen designer for the printed matter of the Holland Festival for much of the festival's years, he used a painterly style for his work with the festival between 1954 and 1965 and later a more abstract style between 1969 and 1972. As well as publicity design, Elffers was commissioned to design the summer stamps to promote the Holland Festival in 1972.

Advertising Design, Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content, Regional Histories

• Japan
• Japanese Modernism

Advertising in Japan, 1960. An Overview of Graphic Design from Japan

An overview of Graphic Design from Japan from the year 1960, complemented by 50 scanned images from Annual of Advertising Art in Japan 1960 (Bijyutu Shuppan Sha, 1960).