The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts 08, Spring 1988

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Content includes:
Documentary and Propaganda: The Photographs of the Farm Security Administration – Michael L. Carlebach
Painting and Place: Frederic C. Knight in Scranton – Karal Ann Marling
Louis Lozowick: From “Machine Ornaments” to Applied Design, 1923-1930 – Virginia Hagelstein Marquardt
Wilhelmina Geddes, Harry Clarke, and Their Part in the Arts and Crafts Movement in Ireland – Nicola Gordon Bowe
An Outpost of the Arts and Crafts Movement – Isabelle Anscombe
The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Modern Design: 1917-1929 – Christine Wallace Laidlaw
Interview: Timothy F. Rub on the Work of Joseph Urban – Beth Dunlop and Timothy F. Rub
London Letter – Peyton Skipwith
Correction: Furniture, Painting, and Applied Designs: Alvar Aalto’s Search for Architectural Form

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Rudolph de Harak designed over 50 record covers for Westminster Records as well as designing covers for Columbia, Oxford and Circle record labels. His bright, geometric graphics can easily be distinguished and recognised.

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The typographic designs produced for the National Theatre by Ken Briggs are not only iconic and depict the Swiss typographic style of the time, but remain a key example of the creation of a cohesive brand style.

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I first came across Kens work in the Unit Edition’s superb monograph, Structure and Substance, published in 2012. Although I had owned a few of the British industrial design magazines, Design, for a few years before, in which Ken had designed numerous covers for.
In the ambitious new monograph Rational Simplicity: Rudolph de Harak, Graphic Designer, Volume shines a light on the complete arc of the exceptionally rich and varied career of Rudolph de Harak, showcasing his vibrant, graphic, formally brilliant work, which blazed a colourful trail through the middle decades of the twentieth century.