Special issue on Transportation Advertising
Cover design by Hans Ibe
Content includes: Advertising on the Elevated and Underground Railways of Berlin, German Transportation Propaganda, Advertising for Spas, Health Resorts, and Summer Resorts, Paul Winkler-Leers, How Should a Movie Promote
a Summer Resort?
Selected Artists:Fritz Ahlers, Otto Arpke, Lucian Bernhard, Ernst Böhm, Julius U. Engelhard, Franz Glass, Ludwig Hohlwein, Dore Mönkemeyer-Corty, Walter Nehmer, Louis Oppenheim, Franz Peffer, Max Schwerdtfeger, Willy Willrab
My lectures and workshops also help bridge the gap between academia and industry. Through my lectures and collecting, I strive to promote design as a ever-changing dynamic industry that has the power to shape and improve the world we live in.
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Design Archive Feature, Designer Profiles, Members Only Content, Regional Histories
Rudolph de Harak designed over 50 record covers for Westminster Records as well as designing covers for Columbia, Oxford and Circle record labels. His bright, geometric graphics can easily be distinguished and recognised.
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Advertising Design, Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content
As part of their marketing strategy, Kast + Ehinger, commissioned a selection of German designers to produce advertisements aimed at the design industry. I have scanned in quite a lot of their advertising matter, all of which were back-page advertisements from three German design magazines. Der Druckspiegel, Gebrauchsgraphik and Graphik – Werbung + Formgebung.
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