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Rudolph de Harak

Graphis 70, 1957

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Content includes:
Art Directors Club of New York. 34th Annual Exhibition of Advertising and Editorial Art (Charles Rosner)
Jelmoli S.A. A Department Store with World Famous Windows (Willy Rotzler)
St. Raphael. Variations on a Theme (Denys Chevalier)
Zande Popular Art (Pierre M. Comte)
Arnold Varga. A New Look at Store Advertising (Irma Koval)
Eric Fraser (Alec Davis)
Louis Danziger (William B. McDonald)
American Annual Reports (Glory Harris)
Ark & Typos. Two Student Magazines (Michael Haber)
Henri Georges Adam (Francois Stahly)
Jean-Marie Albagnac. The Painter of the Pear (Francois Stahly)

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  • Format: Magazine
  • Designer/s: Rudolph de Harak
  • Year: 1957
  • Client/Publisher: Graphis Press
  • Size: 235mm x 300mm
Rudolph de Harak ran his own design studio in New York, where he worked across design disciplines including the design of  trademarks, posters, brochures, book, magazine and record covers, wall graphics, institutional advertising, industrial design, furniture and street decorations, sculptures, exhibitions; environmental graphics and signs.  He taught at many American institutes and also created the United States pavilion for Expo 70 in Osaka; the series «Man, his planet, his space» (Canada at Expo 67) and the entire decoration of the ground floor of an office skyscraper in New York (127, John Street), including the facade writings, external decorations, benches and steel sculptures.

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Graphis 70, 1957. Cover design by Rudolph de Harak
Graphis 70, 1957. Cover design by Rudolph de Harak

Rudolph de Harak ran his own design studio in New York, where he worked across design disciplines including the design of  trademarks, posters, brochures, book, magazine and record covers, wall graphics, institutional advertising, industrial design, furniture and street decorations, sculptures, exhibitions; environmental graphics and signs.  He taught at many American institutes and also created the United States pavilion for Expo 70 in Osaka; the series «Man, his planet, his space» (Canada at Expo 67) and the entire decoration of the ground floor of an office skyscraper in New York (127, John Street), including the facade writings, external decorations, benches and steel sculptures.
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