Content includes:
Fashionable Elegance • On the Shoe
Posters by Otto Glaser
Eugene W. Laurents, Young Designer from the United States
Hans Theo Richter • Sketches from a Children’s Playground
Alan Fletcher, an English Graphic Artist
Ornamental Borders of the 15th and 16th Centuries
Window Displays of the Traffic Office of Cologne
All about the Post Office Box
A Campaign of the German Federal Mails
Triumph of an Idea • Results of a Contest for a Signet
Herbert Müller-Dennhof • Graphic Advertising Art
Design Archive Feature, Designer Profiles, Members Only Content, Regional Histories
Ootje Oxenaar designed the summer stamps for the Netherlands using an assignment from De Nederlandsche Bank based on banknotes. The assignment resulted in the collaboration of Oxenaar, the printer, the laboratory and the banking specialist, in which they experimented with the design of securities on printed matter.
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Design Archive Feature, Illustration, Members Only Content, Regional Histories
George Giusti designed around forty releases for Command, complementing the work of other designers like Josef Albers, S. Neil Fujita, Rudolph de Harak, and Charles E. Murphy.
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Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content
Notes on transit and network map design, including the iconic London Underground map by Harry Beck, the importance of visual clarity, and the role of accessible design in timetable design.
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