Content includes:
Emil Preetorius – The Art of the small Format • Annual Report of the Artistic Advisory Board of the German Federal Postal Services for 1959
Hans Kuh – Petunia, the International Goose Illustrations from a Children’s Book by Roger Duvoisin
Erich Pfeiffer-Belli – Walter Bosshardt, Basel • Typography in Graphic Art
Remigius Netzer – Illustrations by Christoph Meckel for the Cycle «Moël»
Eberhard Hölscher – Gottlieb Ruth, Stuttgart • Book-Art and Commercial Graphic Art
Armin Eichholz – Jan Lenica, Warsaw • Political Caricatures
Eberhard Hölscher – Federal Horticultural Exhibition 1961 • Results of a Poster Contest
Corporate Identity & Branding, Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content, Regional Histories, Studios & Collectives
The identity manual consisted of 130 pages of information and brand usage with Arie J. Geurts heading up the project as design director, (who later headed up his own design studio in Los Angeles). The identity uses minimal colour and focuses on a consistent brand blue in all communications.
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Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content, Poster Design, Regional Histories
The best poster designs from Die besten Plakate des Jahres 1957 with a translated foreword by Walter Kern. Featuring the work of J. Müller-Brockmann, Gottlieb Soland, Mary Vieira and Celestino Piatti.
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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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