Join the Mailing List

Membership

Graphic Design History from Design Reviewed
Willem Sandberg - Dutch Designer and Illustrator

Open de Musea, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, 1973

Information

Author: Gerard Stigter, Anthon Beeke a.o.
Design: Willem Sandberg

Details

  • Format: Exhibition Catalogue
  • Designer/s: Willem Sandberg
  • Year: 1973
  • Client/Publisher: Centraal Museum, Utrech
Willem Jacob Henri Berend Sandberg, commonly known as Willem Sandberg, was born in 1897 in Amersfoort, Netherlands. In 1945, Sandberg became the director of the Stedelijk Museum, where he was responsible for artists and art forms, designing many of the museum's catalogues, posters, and exhibitions using his typographic experiments. He designed around 380 posters and over 250 catalogues and also collaborated with other designers, including Otto Treumann and Dick Elffers.

Linked Information

Open de Musea, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, 1973. Catalogue design by Willem Sandberg
Open de Musea, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, 1973. Catalogue design by Willem Sandberg
Willem Jacob Henri Berend Sandberg, commonly known as Willem Sandberg, was born in 1897 in Amersfoort, Netherlands. In 1945, Sandberg became the director of the Stedelijk Museum, where he was responsible for artists and art forms, designing many of the museum's catalogues, posters, and exhibitions using his typographic experiments. He designed around 380 posters and over 250 catalogues and also collaborated with other designers, including Otto Treumann and Dick Elffers.
More graphic design artefacts
Good Design Good Business, John Gloag, Council of Industrial Design, 1948
From the design archive:

Good Design Good Business, John Gloag, Council of Industrial Design, 1948

  • Format: Book
  • Designer/s: Unstated
  • Year: 1948
View Artefact
Novum Gebrauchsgraphik, 8, 1972. Cover design by H. Gehring
From the design archive:

Novum Gebrauchsgraphik, 8, 1972

  • Format: Magazine
  • Designer/s: Hinnerk Gehring
  • Year: 1972
View Artefact
Eye, Issue 052, Summer 2004
From the design archive:

Eye, Issue 052, Summer 2004

  • Format: Magazine
  • Year: 2004
View Artefact
Graphic Design 65, 1977
From the design archive:

Graphic Design 65, 1977

  • Format: Magazine
  • Designer/s: Nobuo Nakagaki
  • Year: 1977
View Artefact

view more of the graphic design archive

More graphic design history articles

Members Content

Design (Japan), 61, 1964. Cover design by Kohei Sugiura
  • Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content

Kohei Sugiura. Japanese Graphic Designer | 1932

Kohei Sugiura’s work spans an impressive range of mediums, including record jackets, publication covers, posters, exhibition catalogues, and stamps. He perfectly merged functionality and data visualisation with aesthetics. Drawing on his background in architecture, Sugiura applied a systematic, programmatic methodology to graphic design, similar to the approach of Swiss designer Karl Gerstner. 

Members Content

Artefacts designed by Ken Garland
  • Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content

Ken Garland and Galt Toys

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.

Members Content

karl-oskar-blase-design-graphic
  • Designer Profile, Members Only Content

Karl Oskar Blase

Karl Oskar Blase was born in 1925 in Cologne, Germany. He was a prolific painter, designer, sculptor and exhibition curator. His work included magazine covers, for publications such as Form and Gebrauchsgraphik, stamp designs for the German Postal Service and film posters for companies such as Atlas Films.

Members Content

The design work of Olle Eksell
  • Designer Profile, Members Only Content

Olle Eksell

Olle Eksell is well known for his advertising illustration, book jackets and playful packaging design. He first studied engineering and later decided to become a graphic artist. He began his career as a window decorator in 1935, and studied under Hugo Steiner between 1939 and 1941.