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Johan Lagae, Tom Avermaete, Editorial, L’Afrique, c’est chic
Johan Lagae, Kulterman and After, On the Historiography of the 1950’s and the 1960’s Architecture in Africa
Madalena Cunha Matos, Colonial Architecture and Amnesia, Mapping the Work of Portuguese Architects in Angola and Mozambique
Haim Yacobui, The Architecture of Foreign Policy, Israeli Architects in Africa
Luce Beeckmans, French Planning in a Former Belgian Colony, A Critical Analysis of the French Urban Planning Missions in Post-Idependance Kinshasa
Tom Avermaete, Framing the Afropolis, Michel Ecochard and the African City for the Greatest Number
Luis Lage, Sammy Baloji, Strolling through Time on the Avenida Lenine, Maputo (Mozambique)
Viviana d’Auria, Bruno De Meulder, Unsettling Landscapes: The Volta River Project, New Settlements between Tradition and Transition

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OASE 82, 2010, Architecture and Planning in Africa 1950–1970. Designed by Karel Martens, Aagje Martens, Werkplaats Typografie
OASE 82, 2010, Architecture and Planning in Africa 1950–1970. Designed by Karel Martens, Aagje Martens, Werkplaats Typografie
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Rudolph de Harak designed over 50 record covers for Westminster Records as well as designing covers for Columbia, Oxford and Circle record labels. His bright, geometric graphics can easily be distinguished and recognised.

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The typographic designs produced for the National Theatre by Ken Briggs are not only iconic and depict the Swiss typographic style of the time, but remain a key example of the creation of a cohesive brand style.

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I first came across Kens work in the Unit Edition’s superb monograph, Structure and Substance, published in 2012. Although I had owned a few of the British industrial design magazines, Design, for a few years before, in which Ken had designed numerous covers for.
In the ambitious new monograph Rational Simplicity: Rudolph de Harak, Graphic Designer, Volume shines a light on the complete arc of the exceptionally rich and varied career of Rudolph de Harak, showcasing his vibrant, graphic, formally brilliant work, which blazed a colourful trail through the middle decades of the twentieth century.