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Rudolph de Harak

Rational Simplicity, Rudolph de Harak, Graphic Designer, Volume, 2022

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  • Format Book
  • Designer/s Rudolph de Harak
  • Year 2022
  • Client/Publisher Volume
  • Size 210mm x 300mm
Rudolph de Harak
Rudolph de Harak ran his own design studio in New York, where he worked across design disciplines including the design of  trademarks, posters, brochures, book, magazine and record covers, wall graphics, institutional advertising, industrial design, furniture and street decorations, sculptures, exhibitions; environmental graphics and signs.  He taught at many American institutes and also created the United States pavilion for Expo 70 in Osaka; the series «Man, his planet, his space» (Canada at Expo 67) and the entire decoration of the ground floor of an office skyscraper in New York (127, John Street), including the facade writings, external decorations, benches and steel sculptures. Explore related designers including Paul Rand and Ladislav Sutnar. See also American Modernism, Record Sleeves, 1950s graphic design history.

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Rational Simplicity, Rudolph de Harak, Graphic Designer, Volume, 2021
Rational Simplicity, Rudolph de Harak, Graphic Designer, Volume, 2021
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Interiors, Volume 112, Number 09, April 1953

  • Format: Magazine
  • Designer/s: Rudolph de Harak
  • Year: 1953
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  • Format: Record Sleeve
  • Designer/s: Rudolph de Harak
  • Year: 1961
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Perspektiven, Literatur, Kunst, Musik, 12, 1955

  • Format: Book
  • Designer/s: Rudolph de Harak
  • Year: 1955
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Holiday Magazine, July, 1963

  • Format: Magazine
  • Designer/s: Rudolph de Harak
  • Year: 1963
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