This volume is part of the Japanese design series that showcasing contemporary trademark and logotype design from across Japan. The series was published annually (or biennially) by Graphic-sha. Each volume is a snapshot of branding trends and identity design from its time, covering Corporate logos, Product marks, Institutional identities and Typographic treatments.
Advertising Design, Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content
As part of their marketing strategy, Kast + Ehinger, commissioned a selection of German designers to produce advertisements aimed at the design industry. I have scanned in quite a lot of their advertising matter, all of which were back-page advertisements from three German design magazines. Der Druckspiegel, Gebrauchsgraphik and Graphik – Werbung + Formgebung.
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Advertising Design, Design Archive Feature
Among the young graphic artists of Berlin, who set to work after the war, Hans Adolf Albitz and Ruth Albitz-Geiß can claim special attention. In a short time, at a period when economic conditions were pretty unfavourable, they worked themselves so to the fore that their names came to mean something in Berlin publicity, and in western Germany their posters are known and appreciated, too.
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Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content, Poster Design, Regional Histories
The best poster designs from Die besten Plakate des Jahres 1957 with a translated foreword by Walter Kern. Featuring the work of J. Müller-Brockmann, Gottlieb Soland, Mary Vieira and Celestino Piatti.
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