Content includes:
The Art of Advertising: George Lois on Mass Communication, by George Lois, New York
William Klein: Painter/Photographer/Film-maker, by Chris Marker, Paris
Shut up! 50 Drawings for Amnesty International, by Art Buchwald, New York
AIGA – Federal Design Response: Raising the Design Standards of US Government Graphics, by Susan M. Czelusniak, New York
Photographis 78 – The real world and the imaginary (photographed) world of advertising, by Prof. L. Fritz Gruber, Cologne
Deutscher Sparkassenverlag. The German Savings Banks as Patrons of the Fine and Applied Arts, by Prof. Kurt Weidemann, Stuttgart
Swiss Posters 1977, by Claude Loewer, Neuchatel
Tangram: The old Chinese figure puzzle, by Stanley Mason, Zurich
Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content, Movements
A 1,500 essay on the transformative era of graphic design from the 1970s to the 1990s. Moving beyond the constraints of modernism, designers like Wolfgang Weingart and April Greiman redefined visual communication through bold experimentation with type, colour, and early computer graphics. This essay highlights how postmodernism and New Wave design introduced complexity, individuality, and digital innovation in to graphic design.
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The UK’s first vintage poster market is to launch as a 3-day pop-up at the Copeland Gallery in Peckham 14-16 May. Entry is free.
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Ephemera, Illustration, Members Only Content, Regional Histories
50 tickets from Japan spanning nearly 50 years (1956–2004).
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