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Novum Gebrauchsgraphik, 5, 1972

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Content includes:
Hans Kuh – Results of the KODAK Colored Photo Calendar Competition 1972
Kurt Löb – Selling Art Like Margarine, On the Work of the Dutch Graphic Artist, Jan van Toorn
Alexandre Alexandre – André François, Paris, A Selection from his Latest Work
Franz Hermann Wills – Product Presentation on the North American Market, Prize Winners of the 1971 Competition of the Paperboard Packaging Council, Chicago
Jacques Paul Dauriac – Afro-American Wallpapers and Tapestries by Julian Tomchin, New York
Itu Tiarks – Richard H. O. Werckshagen ID Design Studios, Wiesbaden
Walter Leonhard – Marks and Punches on Old Pewter-Ware

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  • Format: Magazine
  • Designer/s: André François
  • Year: 1972
  • Client/Publisher: Bruckmann Verlag
  • Size: 230mm x 297mm
André François was born on November 9, 1915, and attended the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1933 and the Ecole de Cassandre in Paris in 1934-35. His work includes posters, illustrations, stage design, and sculpture.

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Novum Gebrauchsgraphik, 5, 1972. Cover design by André François
Novum Gebrauchsgraphik, 5, 1972. Cover design by André François
André François was born on November 9, 1915, and attended the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1933 and the Ecole de Cassandre in Paris in 1934-35. His work includes posters, illustrations, stage design, and sculpture.
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