Olaf Leu - Graphic Designer - Germany

Graphis 141, 1969

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Content includes:
Dr. Willy Rotzler, Zurich/Hans Neuburg, Zurich: VSG. Thirty Years of Graphic Design in Switzerland, 1938-1968
Ken Baynes, London: Screen Prints – Original Graphic Art?
Lou Dorfsman, New York: Olaf Leu. Designer, Art Director
Atsuko Katsube, Tokyo: The Traditional Toys of Japan: a disappearing world
Dr. Willy Rotzler, Zurich: Hans-Georg Rauch

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Graphis 141, 1969. Cover design by Olaf Leu.
Graphis 141, 1969. Cover design by Olaf Leu.
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Many influential British designers have made their names in the history books. Abram Games, Alan Fletcher, Tom Eckersley and Derek Birdsall, to name a few. But one designer that has always influenced me, not only as inspiration from their design output, but as an example of the role of a designer and the importance of having strong ethics, is Ken Garland. He is known for his innovative and socially responsible approach to graphic design and his involvement in the design community through his teaching, writing and activism. In the second instalment of this series, I will discuss Ken Garland's magazine work from my collection.

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Dick Elffers, had been the chosen designer for the printed matter of the Holland Festival for much of the festival's years, he used a painterly style for his work with the festival between 1954 and 1965 and later a more abstract style between 1969 and 1972. As well as publicity design, Elffers was commissioned to design the summer stamps to promote the Holland Festival in 1972.

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Publimondial was founded André Roulleaux in 1942 and remained in circulation until 1960. The French journal was published by Art et Publications and was subtitled ‘The Magazine of Graphic Arts and Advertising Technique’.
Ken was born in 1929, in Southampton and grew up in a small market town in North Devon. He was a principled man, with strong values and views against the hyper-consumerism we live with today. Ken studied at the London Central School of Arts and Crafts in the 1950s and was taught by Herbert Spencer, Anthony Froshaug and Jesse Collins. Whilst at the School he studied alongside designers Ken Briggs, Alan Fletcher and Colin Forbes.