Pino Tovaglia

Gebrauchsgraphik, 05, 1958

Content includes:
Alexandre Alexandre – Artistic playing cards in the service of advertising and elegance
Eberhard Hölscher – New German record-cases
Erich Pfeiffer-Belli – The best Swiss posters of 1957
Remigius Netzer – Wood-cuts by Walter Habdank
Eberhard Hölscher – The advertising media of the KSB-AMAG chain
Alexandre Alexandre – Old tobacco packages
Horst Rebay – »Imprenta AS«, a team in Uruguay
Alexandre Alexandre – Laurent de Brunhoff, the new poet of satirical cartoons
Eberhard Hölscher – The Typo Counter, a valuable new invention for estimates of composition
»Charme«, a type of the type foundry Ludwig & Mayer, Frankfort-on-Main

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Pino Tovaglia
Pino Tovaglia was born in Milan. He was art director at Pirelli, of the Pirelli Magazine and the Rai Magazine. He taught graphic design at the Scuola Superiore d'Arte del Castello from 1946 to 1954, at the technical-artistic courses of the Umanitaria from 1963 to 1970 and taught coordinated image at the Scuola Politecnica di Design from 1973. Explore related designers including Franco Grignani and Giovanni Pintori. See also Italian Modernism and Italian graphic design history.
Gebrauchsgraphik
A German design magazine published from 1924 onwards, devoted to commercial art and advertising design.

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Gebrauchsgraphik, 5, 1958. Cover design by Pino Tovaglia
Gebrauchsgraphik, 5, 1958. Cover design by Pino Tovaglia
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