Tom Avermaete, Viviana d’Auria, Klaske Havik, Lidewij Lenders, Editorial: Crossing Boundaries
Viviana d’Auria, Taming an ‘Undisciplined Discipline’: Constantinos Doxiadis and the Science of Human Settlements
Tom Avermaete, Crossing Cultures of Urbanism: The Transnational Planning Ventures of Michel Écochard
Ian Jackson, Jane Drew and Maxwell Fry: Traversing the Tropics
Nina Berre, Norwegian Expert Export to Independent Zambia
Rachel Lee, Otto Koenigsberger: Transcultural Practice and the Tropical Third Space
Ellen Shoshkes, Jaqueline Tyrwhitt: The United Nations and Planning Education in Indonesia
Rainer Hehl, Ludwig Engel, Berlin Transfer: Learning from the Global South
Klaske Havik, Nelson Mota, Designing for Simultaneity: Negotiating Domestic, Social and Productive Practices in Addis Ababa
Lidewij Lenders, Klaske Havik, Interview Sami Rintala
Lideweij Lenders, Klaske Havik, Interview BC Architects
OASE, Interview with Sonja Spruit
Lideweij Lenders, Klaske Havik, Interview ARCò
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Advertising Design, Corporate Identity & Branding, Design Archive Feature, Regional Histories
IBM puts a premium on functional design, forms and colours which make it far easier for the potential customer to gain an insight. In this respect the IBM methods are exemplary. The IBM already opened studios of artistic and graphic design for its German and Italian offices and a few years ago another such studio was established in Paris. Frank René Testemale was entrusted with its organisation and was appointed its business and art director.
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Design Archive Feature, Designer Profiles, Members Only Content, Regional Histories
Yoshio Hayakawa is one of Japan’s most influential post-war poster designers. His work represents a fusion of traditional Japanese art and European modernism often using soft, poetic brushstrokes and refined colour palettes and capturing the elegance of Japanese aesthetics while integrating the clean lines and bold visual language of Western design.
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Design Archive Feature, Designer Profiles, Magazines & Publishing, Members Only Content, Regional Histories
Many influential British designers have made their names in the history books. Abram Games, Alan Fletcher, Tom Eckersley and Derek Birdsall, to name a few. But one designer that has always influenced me, not only as inspiration from their design output, but as an example of the role of a designer and the importance of having strong ethics, is Ken Garland. He is known for his innovative and socially responsible approach to graphic design and his involvement in the design community through his teaching, writing and activism. In the second instalment of this series, I will discuss Ken Garland's magazine work from my collection.
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