Book Reviews & Press Releases

Parallel Public – Experimental Art in Late East Germany By Sara Blaylock

Parallel Public is a new publication by Sara Blaylock, published by MIT Press. The book documents the East German artists pioneering work that made their country’s experimental art scene a form of (counter) public life.

Design Archive Feature, Designer Profiles, Members Only Content, Regional Histories

• Japan
• Japanese Modernism

Kohei Sugiura. Japanese Graphic Designer | 1932

Kohei Sugiura’s work spans an impressive range of mediums, including record jackets, publication covers, posters, exhibition catalogues, and stamps. He perfectly merged functionality and data visualisation with aesthetics. Drawing on his background in architecture, Sugiura applied a systematic, programmatic methodology to graphic design, similar to the approach of Swiss designer Karl Gerstner. 

Advertising Design, Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content

• Germany
• Mid Century Modernism

Walter Spiegel by Werner Suhr. Translated from Gebrauchsgraphik, February 1936

A 1936 article on Walter Spiegel, originally in German and English, published in Gebrauchsgraphik, February 1936.