Join the Mailing List

Membership

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

Surréalisme + abstraction, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 1951

Information

Details

  • Format: Exhibition Catalogue
  • Designer/s: Willem Sandberg
  • Year: 1951
  • Client/Publisher: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
  • Size: 190mm x 260mm
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

Surréalisme + abstraction, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 1951
Surréalisme + abstraction, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 1951
Surréalisme + abstraction, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 1951
Surréalisme + abstraction, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 1951
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
Kunst und Design, Wim Crouwel, Preisträger der Stankowski-Stiftung, 1991.
From the design archive:

Kunst und Design, Wim Crouwel, Preisträger der Stankowski-Stiftung, 1991

  • Format: Book
  • Designer/s: Wim Crouwel (Total Design)
  • Year: 1991
View Artefact
Österreichisches Jahrbuch für Exlibris und Gebrauchsgrafik, 1929
From the design archive:

Österreichisches Jahrbuch für Exlibris und Gebrauchsgrafik, 1929

  • Format: Magazine
  • Designer/s: Rudolph Köhl
  • Year: 1929
View Artefact
Archiv für Buchgewerbe und Gebrauchsgraphik, January 1938. Cover Design by Alfons Schneider
From the design archive:

Archiv für Buchgewerbe und Gebrauchsgraphik, January 1938

  • Format: Magazine
  • Designer/s: Alfons Schneider
  • Year: 1938
View Artefact
Ottagono 22, 1971. Designed by Unimark
From the design archive:

Ottagono 22, 1971

  • Format: Magazine
  • Designer/s: Unimark
  • Year: 1971
View Artefact

view more of the graphic design archive

More graphic design history articles

Members Content

Advertisements for Radio Italiano designed by Erberto Carboni Scanned from Publimondial 29, 1950
  • Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content

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.

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

Banco do Estado de São Paulo Logo designed by Aloísio Magalhães, 1969
  • Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content

The Logos and Symbols of Brazilian Designer, Aloísio Magalhães

Magalhães developed over 180 brands and in addition to developing visual identities, he also developed designs for Brazilian notes and coins.

Members Content

La Biennale di Venezia XII, Festival Internazionale Di Musica Contemporanea, 1949. Designed by Max Huber
  • Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content

Max Huber. Swiss Graphic Designer | 1919 – 1992

Max Huber was born in 1919 in Switzerland. He studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule (School of Arts and Crafts) in Zurich where he excelled in graphic design and photography.  Huber worked across advertising, packaging, design and industrial design. He had a distinctive style that skillfully blended bright hues with photomontage.