Jan Lenica

Gebrauchsgraphik, 04, 1959

Content includes:
The Scenic Artist Jean Pierre Ponnelle
Martin Kausche, Book-jackets
Incandescent Advertising, Architecture and Type Design
The Illustrator Heinz Schubert
From the good old time: Ornamental letters of the 19th Century
Chopin Memorial Year 1960, Results of an International Poster Contest
A New Dawn for the Film-Poster: Results of a Poster Contest
The Team Sexauer-Effert. Advertising and Book Graphic Art
«Trump-Mediäval- a Type of the Type-Foundry C. E. Weber, Stuttgart

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Jan Lenica
Jan Lenica was born in Posen in 1928 and studied architecture at the Warsaw Polytechnic and then worked on the design and creation of environments for exhibitions and fairs, scenography and film productions. He designed posters from 1950, participating in exhibitions at home and abroad (Warsaw 1958, London 1960, New York and Frankfurt 1963, Tokyo 1965, Oberhausen 1966). Explore related designers including Henryk Tomaszewski and Waldemar Świerzy. See also Polish School of Poster Design, Polish graphic design history, 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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Gebrauchsgraphik, 4, 1959. Cover design by Jan Lenica
Gebrauchsgraphik, 4, 1959. Cover design by Jan Lenica
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