Special issue on The Poster
Cover design by Wilhelm Willrab
Content includes: Das Plakat • The Poster; F. C. Herrick und das moderne Plakat • F. C. Herrick and the Modern Poster; Das Plakat – ein Kunsterzeugnis? • [The Poster – a Product of Art?]
Selected Artists: Fritz Ahlers, Otto Arpke, Herbert Bayer, Julius U. Engelhard, Hans Rudi Erdt, Albert Fuss, Julius Gipkens, Ludwig Hohlwein, Max Körner, Busso Malchow, Theo Matejko, Dora Mönkemeyer-Corty, Louis Oppenheim, Franz Peffer, Karl Rabus, Eugen Spiro, Jupp Wiertz, Lucian Zabel
Design Archive Feature, Ephemera, Members Only Content, Regional Histories
The designer is unstated on these postcards, which were designed during the mid to late 1970s, but these playful illustrations alongside what looks to be Frankfurter Bold definitely fit the criteria of friendliness and efficiency
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To Have and To Hold, contains hundreds of bag designs collected during over half a century. The book is a must-buy for anyone interested in ephemera, the history of design or British high street history.
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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.
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