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Walter Breker

Gebrauchsgraphik, 10, 1967

Content includes:
The First Annual Contest Graphic Design Deutschland 66/67
Eberhard Hölscher – Introduction
Hans Neuburg – Transaction of the Jury
Felix Müller
Special Awards
Advertisements, Posters, Folders, Brochures, Catalogues, Calendars, PR-Publications an House Organs
Record Sleeves, Packages, Business Stationery, Signets and Trade.Marks, Self-Advertising, Private Announcements and Small Printing-Matter, Books-Covers and Book-Jackets, Title-Pages of Periodicals, Lettering For Buildings and Fair and Graphic Designs For Film and TV

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Walter Breker
Walter Breker was a German designer who studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule, Bielefeld. He became head of applied graphics at the Werkkunstschule and later at the Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf. He designed posters, logos and independent illustrations and paintings. Explore related designers including Gunter Rambow and Hans Hillmann. See also German graphic design history and 1960s graphic design history.
Gebrauchsgraphik
A German design magazine published from 1924 onwards, devoted to commercial art and advertising design.

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Gebrauchsgraphik, 10, 1967
Gebrauchsgraphik, 10, 1967. Cover desigb by Walter Breker
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Gebrauchsgraphik, 11, 1930

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Graphis 163, 1972

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