Content includes:
Furniture, Painting, and Applied Designs: Alvar Aalto’s Search for Architectural Form – William C. Miller
Claude Flight and the Linocut – Michael Parkin
The Chicago Design Workshop: 1939-1943 – George J. Mavigliano
John Storrs: Organic Functionalism in a Modern Idiom – Kenneth Dinin
DAPA Interview: Lynn Springer Roberts – DAPA and Lynn Springer Roberts
Chicago Letter – Cynthia Davidson-Powers
London Letter – Peyton Skipwith
Advertising Design, Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content
The collection of works I've gathered, designed for Olympia-Werke, showcases the height of mid-century German commercial artistry. The work was collated in a branded folder and contained forty brochures, advertisements and manuals.
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To Have and To Hold, contains hundreds of bag designs collected during over half a century. The book is a must-buy for anyone interested in ephemera, the history of design or British high street history.
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Advertising Design, Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content
As part of their marketing strategy, Kast + Ehinger, commissioned a selection of German designers to produce advertisements aimed at the design industry. I have scanned in quite a lot of their advertising matter, all of which were back-page advertisements from three German design magazines. Der Druckspiegel, Gebrauchsgraphik and Graphik – Werbung + Formgebung.
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