Graphis 56, 1954

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Picasso the Lithographer (Manuel Gasser)
Jeanne & Franco Grignani (Antonio Boggeri)
Tom Eckersley (Rene Elvin)
Bucher – Cromieres (Claude Favre)
Hans Falk (Willy Rotzler)
Life Savers. Refreshing Advertising for Sweets (Paul Arthur)
European Popular Art at the Fair (Michel Ragon)
Egyptian Painting (Andre Lhote)
Galerie Maeght, Paris: Book Design and Advertising Art (Francois Stahly)
Hans Erni: L’Histoire Naturelle de Buffon (Manuel Gasser)

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Graphis 56, 1954. Cover design by Pablo Picasso
Graphis 56, 1954. Cover design by Pablo Picasso
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The 1960s was an era characterised by political, social, and cultural shifts. The counterculture movement emerged as a response to the perceived failures of the mainstream establishment, sparking a wave of activism and alternative ideologies. And with these an array of printed matter. Counterculture publications, often referred to as the "underground press," became powerful platforms for dissent, expression, and the exploration of new ideas.
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.
The stories of Norwich’s medieval merchants’ marks is being told in a new book and exhibition.

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Perusing an issue of Der Druckspiegel from 1962, I found these fantastic examples of Swiss Design, produced for the University Ball at the University in St. Gallen, Switzerland, in 1961. The advertising matter included posters, newspaper advertisements, cinema slides, invitation cards and a booklet.