Design Archive Feature, Illustration, Members Only Content, Poster Design
In 1949, the Bund Deutscher Gebrauchsgraphiker held the first Die besten Plakate des Jahres competition to showcase top German poster design. Hanns Lohrer was one of eight award winners. Designs scanned from Gebrauchsgraphik, 01, 1951.
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Advertising Design, Design Archive Feature, Ephemera, Members Only Content
A collection of matchbox labels from around the world. Graphic design history of one of advertising's smallest and most overlooked formats.
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Design Archive Feature, Designer Profiles, Members Only Content, Regional Histories
Ootje Oxenaar designed the summer stamps for the Netherlands using an assignment from De Nederlandsche Bank based on banknotes. The assignment resulted in the collaboration of Oxenaar, the printer, the laboratory and the banking specialist, in which they experimented with the design of securities on printed matter.
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