Content includes:
Alan Fletcher – Alan Aldridge, Illustrations from the children\’s book ’The butterfly ball and the grasshopper\’s feast’
Jochen Gehrmann – The best Swiss Posters of 1973
Günter Griebl – Tv-Grafik-Team
Alexandre Alexandre – Wojtek Siudmak
Kurt Weidemann – Firma Eberhard Bauer
Gaston Roch – Animated Artistic Cartoons in Belgium
Philipp Luidl – OTL Aicher ’Après Olympia’
Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content, Regional Histories
The stamps for the 1970 editions were designed by Jan Slothouber and William Graatsma in collaboration with the Centre for Cubic Constructions (CCC) in Heerlen. Every stamp displays a different corner point of the same block, highlighting eight distinct corner points, with four chosen for their unique identities.
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Corporate Identity & Branding, Design Archive Feature, Designer Profiles, Members Only Content, Regional Histories
Crouwel was the successor to Willem Sandberg who used an avant-garde approach in his work, utilising torn-paper montage, mixing of sans serif and old Egyptian typefaces and often off-center positioning. Crouwel steered away from this artistic approach and implemented a cohesive design system and a strong identity that emulated the corporate identity boom of the 1950s and 60s.
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Design Archive Feature, Ephemera, Members Only Content, Regional Histories
The designer is unstated on these postcards, which were designed during the mid to late 1970s, but these playful illustrations alongside what looks to be Frankfurter Bold definitely fit the criteria of friendliness and efficiency
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