Content includes:
Eberhard Hölscher: Theatre Posters
Alexandre Alexandre: French Travel Posters
Eberhard Hölscher: Hans Pape
Franziska Meister: Lac-Sgraffito
Eberhard Hölscher: International Poster Exhibition • Results of a Poster Competition in London
Anton Sailer: Das Faber-Männchen • Ein Bleistift spricht zu den Schulkindern
The Faber Manikin • A Pencil Talks to School Children
Anton Sailer: A. W. Sauter
Eberhard Hölscher: Köln • Cologne • Illustrations taken from a Travel Folder
Anton Sailer: Vienna • Shop Windows of the House of Neumann
Fritz Volquard Arnold: New Methods in the Illustration of Newspapers
Eberhard Hölscher: Walther Bergmann
Eberhard Hölscher: Theft in the Dark Room
Design Archive Feature, Designer Profiles, Members Only Content, Poster Design
Scanned posters by the great Michele Spera. Many use a strong use of geometric form, often paired with sans-serif typefaces like Helvetica. Their simplification of form and use of colour create timeliness, recognisable posters that would have stood out alongside the posters of the 1970s which tended to have a heavy use of photography.
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Advertising Design, Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content
Volkswagen commissioned a fantastic range of graphic designers, including Wolf Zimmermann, Hans Looser and Michael Engelmann. The designers amplified the brand image of Volkswagen with strikingly modern designs.
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Design Archive Feature, Magazines & Publishing, Members Only Content, Regional Histories
Before setting up Ken Garland & Associates in Camden, London, Ken was art editor of Design magazine in 1956. The magazine was published by the Council of Industrial Design, which was set up in 1944 with the prime focus of supporting Britains economic recovery.
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