Gebrauchsgraphik, 08, 1959

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Content includes:
Eberhard Hölscher – The best German Posters of 1958
Hans A. Halbey – Bookjackets as an advertising medium
Raimondo Hrabak – Giancarlo Iliprandi – an Italian Commercial Artist
Hans Kuh – Perspective as a Means of Artistic Expression
Max Burchartz – Commercial Graphic Artists as Designers. Results of a Design-Contest for printed curtains
Armin Eichholz – The Illustrator Hermann Metzger
Franz Hermann Wills – Rudolf J. Schmitt – a graphic Artist from Berlin
Franz Hermann Wills – ‘Augustea Filettata’, a type of the Typefoundry Società Nebiolo, Torino

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