Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content

• France, Germany, United Kingdom
• Art Nouveau and Jugendstil

The Year 1900 – An Overview of Graphic Design History

An overview of graphic design in 1900, exploring Art Nouveau, the Eckmann-Schrift typeface, the Steglitz Workshop, the Doves Press and more, illustrated with artefacts from the Design Reviewed archive.

Advertising Design, Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content, Regional Histories

• Italy
• Mid Century Modernism, Italian Modernism

Erberto Carboni and his work for Radio Italiana, 1940s and 1950s

These one-colour forms have a playful but structured aesthetic through their geometric forms, they remind me of the abstract line drawings of Picasso blended with Jan Tschichold and the New Typography.

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Rational Simplicity, the first major monograph of Rudolph de Harak by Richard Poulin

"Rudy is one of the unsung pioneers of American mid-century modernist graphic design. He had a unique and definitive point of view that was really never celebrated. This may have been attributed to his strict adherence to the formal principles of modernism and the International Typographic Style."