Walter Herdeg

Graphis 018, 1947

Content includes:
Death and the Statues (Text:Jean Cocteau; Photos: Pierre Jahan)
Paul Rand (Georgine Oeri)
Salvador Dali 1946 (Georges Borgeaud)
Orneore Metelli. The Shoemaker of Terni
Villemot. (W.H. Allner)
The “La Fontaine” of the Later Middle Ages in the Early Prints (Arnold Pfister)
Ashley: Keep Death off the Road
State and Industrial Design in Great Britain (Noel Carrington)
Franciszka Themerson (Charles Rosner)
Fritz Pauli: In Praise of Fresco (Introduction: Wilhelm Sulser)
New Swiss Posters (Georgine Oeri)
Three Centuries of French Bookbinding (Alfred Hoefliger)
Advertising Art in Post-War Italy (Antonio Boggeri)

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Walter Herdeg
Walter Herdeg was born in Zurich in 1904. He trained as a graphic designer at the School of Applied Arts in Zurich, the State Academy of Fine Arts and Applied Arts in Zurich and the State Academy of Fine Arts and Applied Arts in Berlin. He worked as an independent graphic designer in Paris, London and New York. In 1938, together with W. Amstutz, he opened a studio and founded Graphis magazine in 1944 Explore related designers including Josef Müller-Brockmann and Armin Hofmann. See also Graphis, Swiss graphic design history, Magazines.
Graphis
Graphis is an international magazine founded in 1944 featuring graphic design, advertising, and illustration from around the world.

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