Content includes:
Lanny Sommese – Shopping bags, status symbols for the New Yorkers
Albrecht Bangert – Max Condula, Man and Bag
Wolfgang Zeitvogel – Kaufhof Bold, The distinctive typeface of a chain department-store
Philipp Luidl – Atelier Wiener, impartial and cheerful
Peggy Lindner – Bruckmann\’s Handbook od script
John Halas – Max und Moritz 1978, «Busch in Motion«
Alexandre Alexandre – Peasant Painting from Huhsies Country
Romain Finke – Novum Education, Hochschule der Kunste Berlin
Wieland Schmied – Karl Arnold 1883-1953
Design Archive Feature, Designer Profiles, Members Only Content, Poster Design
Scanned posters by the great Michele Spera. Many use a strong use of geometric form, often paired with sans-serif typefaces like Helvetica. Their simplification of form and use of colour create timeliness, recognisable posters that would have stood out alongside the posters of the 1970s which tended to have a heavy use of photography.
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Advertising Design, Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content, Regional Histories
An overview of Graphic Design from Japan from the year 1960, complemented by 50 scanned images from Annual of Advertising Art in Japan 1960 (Bijyutu Shuppan Sha, 1960).
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Design Archive Feature, Designer Profiles, Magazines & Publishing, Members Only Content, Regional Histories
Oldřich Hlavsa worked primarily in publication design and typography and played a major part in Czech graphic design history. He designed over 2000 book covers and published a series of his own books related to typography.
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