Hermann Scherchen conducts Trumpet Concerti Haydn / Vivaldi Handel / Torelli

Rudolph de Harak designed over 50 record covers for Westminster Records as well as designing covers for Columbia, Oxford and Circle record labels. His bright, geometric graphics can easily be distinguished and recognised.

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  • Format Record Sleeve
  • Designer/s Rudolph de Harak
  • Year 1961
  • Client/Publisher Westminster Records
  • Size 305mm x 305mm
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. Explore related designers including Paul Rand and Ladislav Sutnar. See also American Modernism, Record Sleeves, 1950s graphic design history.

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Hermann Scherchen conducts Trumpet Concerti Haydn / Vivaldi Handel / Torelli designed by Rudolph de Harak
Hermann Scherchen conducts Trumpet Concerti Haydn / Vivaldi Handel / Torelli designed by Rudolph de Harak
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