Content includes:
Kitagawa Utamaro. Painter of Women (Willy Boller)
Piero Fornasetti. His Almanachs (Fabrizio Clerici)
Notes on a Pottery Exhibition (Peter Meyer)
Ballet Designs in the USA (G. Amberg)
Paolo Garretto. (Orio Vergani)
Mogens Zieler. (Georgine Oeri)
English Bookplates To-day (M.F. Severin)
Balzac, seen by 12 modern artists (L.F. Gruber)
American Primitive Painting (Arnold Rudlinger)
Painting Behind Glass (Wilhelm Sulser)
Christmas and New Year’s Cards (Elisabeth Gerold)
Paris Packs its Precious Scents (Mabel Zuppinger)
The “Hard Stones”, a Dying Art (Fabrizio Clerici)
Illustrious Letter-Headings (L.F. Gruber)
Tirggels, Zurich’s Traditional Sweetmeat (Edwin Arnet)
From the graphic design archive:
Advertising Design, Design Archive Feature, Designer Profiles, Members Only Content
A 1925 article on Karl Schulpig, originally in German and published in Archiv für Buchgewerbe und Gebrauchsgraphik, March 1925.
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Corporate Identity & Branding, Design Archive Feature, Designer Profiles, Members Only Content, Regional Histories
Crouwel was the successor to Willem Sandberg who used an avant-garde approach in his work, utilising torn-paper montage, mixing of sans serif and old Egyptian typefaces and often off-center positioning. Crouwel steered away from this artistic approach and implemented a cohesive design system and a strong identity that emulated the corporate identity boom of the 1950s and 60s.
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Movements, Advertising Design, Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content
Art Deco graphic design history: its Paris origins, key pioneers Cassandre, Carlu and McKnight Kauffer, and how the style evolved across Britain, Germany, Italy, Spain and the US.
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