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
Last month (March 2022), I spoke to over fifty Graphic Design undergraduates about the archive and my passion for design history, after which the students had full access to items in the collection and participated in discourse amongst their peers and lecturers. As part of their critical studies unit, the students will be producing essays and content related to the impact, history and aesthetics of selected artefacts.
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Advertising Design, Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content, Regional Histories
These one-colour forms have a playful but structured aesthetic through their geometric forms, they remind me of the abstract line drawings of Picasso blended with Jan Tschichold and the New Typography.
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A 1971 portfolio and exhibition catalogue documenting the corporate identity work of Henrion Design Associates, a rare find revealing the full scope of FHK Henrion's branding practice.
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