Gebrauchsgraphik, 06, 1962

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Content includes:
Raimondo Hrabak – Olivetti • World-Wide Graphic Advertising Art
Theodor Hilten – Charles Goslin • Designs of a New York Free Lance Artist
Eberhard Hölscher – he 50th Anniversary of the Insel-Books
Werner Weissbrodt – Piero Fornasetti • Playful Graphic Art from Italy
Hans Kuh – The Visiting-Cards of German Theaters • Theater Prospectus and Theater Programs
Eberhard Hölscher – Erwin Krubeck’s Pedagogical Work

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Theo Crosby was born in South Africa in 1925 and moved to Britain in the late 1940s. He was a highly skilled designer, architect and sculptor. He became the technical editor of Architectural Design magazine in 1953 and remained in the post for almost a decade. The large format magazines feature an array of content including information on buildings, materials and architectural plans.
I came across two sample books containing printed examples of the work executed by the students in the Composing and Machine Departments of the Polytechnic School of Printing, between 1907 and 1910. I couldn't resist adding these to the archive.
The first American university to accept graphic designers as members of the faculty was the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, called M. I. T, for short. The work created by the design group reflects the high level of instruction, the realistic setting of the training and the progressive philosophy of this institute.

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He designed stamps from around 1955 and in the book Karl Oskar Blase, Briefmarken-Design, Verlag für Philatelistische Literatur, 1981, he was described as one of the most influential stamp designers in Germany.