Billed to B. Shaw & Sons’ Mineral Water Works for one hundredweight of wiper cloths at 50 shillings per cwt, dated 18 February 1911, with a printed receipt stub for £2 9s dated 7 March. The letterhead features a portrait roundel of founder Maurice Gandy and a long list of international branch offices, from Birmingham to Budapest.
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Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content, Poster Design, Regional Histories
The 1960 awards presented 420 poster entries from Swiss designers. Notable winners included Robert Büchler's typographic poster for the Museum of Applied Arts Basel and J. Müller-Brockmann’s Der Film poster for the Museum of Applied Arts and Gerstner + Kutter's asymmetric typographic poster for National-Zeitung SA Basel.
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Movements, Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content
Art Nouveau spread through magazine covers across Europe, from the German Jugend to the Czech Typografia, and regional variations shaped the movement's visual style in print.
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Book Reviews & Press Releases, Corporate Identity & Branding
In the late 1960s, IBM was one of the world’s pre-eminent corporations, employing over 250,000 people in 100 countries. While Paul Rand’s creative genius has been well documented, the work of the IBM staff designers who executed his intent outlined in the IBM Design Guide has often gone unnoticed.
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