Joseph Low

Gebrauchsgraphik, 09, 1956

Contents:
Novel ways of advertising in the pharmaceutical industry.
Works by Alfred Haller
Anton Stankowski, Stuttgart
Caprioles by Günter Reker, Bochum.
Illustrations and silhouettes Hungarian posters
Sigh of a publicity expert: a 1928 poem by publicity expert Rudolf Schmidt-Mannheim typeset and illustrated by Eberhard Rensch Karlheinz Gottstein, München.
Decorative murals
A Dutch museum advertises: includes work by Dick Elffers, Fritz Bühler, May Roth, Willem Sandberg, Wim Crouwel, Jan Sluyters, G. Stassen, Mart Kempers, Otto Treuman, C.A. Jongejans, and Jan Bons

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Joseph Low
Joseph Low was born in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, in 1911. He died in 2000. He studied at the Art Students League with George Grosz and was self-taught in typography and wood-engraving. He worked as a freelance artist in the book and advertising fields, operating a private press in his own studio. Explore related designers including Ben Shahn and Antonio Frasconi. See also American Modernism and 1950s graphic design history.
Gebrauchsgraphik
A German design magazine published from 1924 onwards, devoted to commercial art and advertising design.

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