The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts 12, Spring 1989

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Content includes:
The Lively Poster Arts of Rockwell Kent – Eliot H. Stanley
Marketing Strategies as Indices to Style: The Pottery of Artus Van Briggle – Timothy Robert Rodgers
The Advertising Architecture of Fortunato Depero – Dennis P. Doordan
“New Masses” and John Reed Club Artists, 1926-1936: Evolution of Ideology, Subject Matter, and Style – Virginia Hagelstein Marquardt
Interview: Alan Moss and the Revival of American Modernism – Stephen Neil Greengard and Alan Moss
Correction: Propaganda Art in the Postage Stamps of the Third Reich

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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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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.