Special Hannover Issue
Cover design by Richard Rump
Contents include: Hannover and its Commercial Artists, The History of the Pelikan Poster, Bahlsen Cookie Packages, American Car Advertisements and The Problem of Book Illustrations
Designers incude Lucian Bernhard, K. Bruns, O. W. H. Hadank, Cesar Klein, K. Kunze, Josef Margold, Johannes Molzahn, A. und H. Peffer, F. Schreiber, Lucian Zabel
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, Members Only Content
Little is known about the designer Günther Heil. he established his graphic studio in Berlin and designed many advertisements for 8mm and 16mm film distributor Bruno Schmidt in the 1960s. These were created in the same era as the film distributor Atlas Films was sending films to art-house theatres and were hiring designers Hans Hillmann, Hans Michel, Günther Kieser, Wolfgang Schmidt and Karl Oskar Blase.
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Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content
Westvaco Inspirations was founded in 1925 by the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company. Bradbury Thompson’s produced approximately sixty issues, experimenting with typography, photography, and illustrations.
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