‘W.H. Gispen (1890-1981) established his company in Rotterdam in 1916, and in the first eighteen years the company built up a reputation as a company that made modern lamps and furniture that should not be missing in any prominent building.
The fame of these world-renowned furniture and lamps is largely due to the way in which they were marketed in the 1920s and 1930s: leading so-called New Photographers and Typographers such as Jan Kamman and Paul Schuitema produced the product catalogues and advertising printed matter. for the company Gispen. These advertising activities were an undeniable stimulus for the modernization of typography and photography.
This publication focuses on photos, catalogues and posters from the 1920s and 1930s. In an extensive essay by Hetty Berens, the Rotterdam period of the Gispen firm is particularly highlighted. Aaron Betsky places Gispen in an international perspective.’
Corporate Identity & Branding, Design Archive Feature, Regional Histories, Studios & Collectives
When Fritz Gottschalk and Stuart Ash joined forces in Montreal, it was a partnership ideally suited to the city's hybrid environment. Gottschalk's training in graphic design in Switzerland, Paris and London was rigid, his background European; Ash, Canadian born and educated, was trained in the North American fashion, though he was influenced by his work with European designers
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Bob Salpeter was trained by Paul Rand at IBM and educated in New York, at the School of Visual Arts and the School of Industrial Art. Salpeter went on to build an extensive and impressive career working with clients such as the American Museum of Natural History, the World Golf Hall of Fame, the American Cancer Society, Scott Printing and IBM.
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60 examples of Czech typography from Typografia Vol. 22 (1911). Czech commercial printing at the crossroads of Art Nouveau and early modernism, with work by Methoděj Kaláb, Alois Chvála, V. H. Brunner and many more.
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