Focusing on Locality in Design
Practices of the Japanese Regional Designers in Kansai and Tohoku
Design Archive Feature, Designer Profiles, Members Only Content, Regional Histories
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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Advertising Design, Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content, Regional Histories
Franco Grignani (1908-1999) was one of the twentieth century’s most important Italian graphic designers. Scanning the inner pages of Gebrauchsgraphik 04, 1962, I have managed to collate a selection of the advertisements created in the 1950s and early 1960s, showcasing his groundbreaking design work.
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Design Archive Feature, Magazines & Publishing, Members Only Content
The supplement in the November issue of Der Druckspiegel from 1964 featured a ton of work designed by Peter Steiner, a graphic artist; Peter Beck, his colleague; and Rolf Herkner, a photographer. The three of them worked in collaboration to design ‘graphic-typographic-photographic experiments’.
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