Content includes Gitta Mallász – Hanna Dallos, Budapest; Alfred Bauer; Guy Depière, The Postage Stamp as a Means of Propaganda; Werner Weiskönig, St. Gallen;
Featured include Alfred Bauer, Gitta Dallos, Guy Depiere, O. H. W. Hadank, Hanna Mallász and Werner Weiskönig
Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content, Regional Histories, Typography & Type Design
60 examples of Czech typography from Typografia Vol. 20 (1909). Czech commercial printing at the crossroads of Art Nouveau and early modernism, with work by Methoděj Kaláb, Otokar Císař, Karel Dyrink and many more.
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Advertising Design, Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content
Little is known about the designer Günther Heil. he established his graphic studio in Berlin and designed many advertisements for 8mm and 16mm film distributor Bruno Schmidt in the 1960s. These were created in the same era as the film distributor Atlas Films was sending films to art-house theatres and were hiring designers Hans Hillmann, Hans Michel, Günther Kieser, Wolfgang Schmidt and Karl Oskar Blase.
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Design Archive Feature, Illustration, Members Only Content, Regional Histories
As part of my ongoing series documenting publicity design in the tourism industry, here is my third piece. This time, I am showcasing my collected work of Eric Lancaster, a highly skilled graphic artist whose designs played a vital role in shaping the visual identity of mid-20th-century French tourism.
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