Content includes:
The Posters of Sven Brasch – Victoria Dailey
Thirties Sculpture in the Manship Tradition Reborn in the Eighties – D. Roger Howlett
Pondering the Products of Propaganda: Art and Thought on the Periphery – Peggy A. Loar
José Guadalupe Posada, Lampooner – Ilan Stavans
A Conversation with John P. Axelrod – Lyn Farmer and John P. Axelrod
Attilio Calzavara: Stories from an Archive – Enrica Torelli Landini and Jon R. Snyder
Graphic Art in America: The Artistic and Civic Poster in the United States Reconsidered – Gabriel P. Weisberg
Advertising Design, Design Archive Feature
Among the young graphic artists of Berlin, who set to work after the war, Hans Adolf Albitz and Ruth Albitz-Geiß can claim special attention. In a short time, at a period when economic conditions were pretty unfavourable, they worked themselves so to the fore that their names came to mean something in Berlin publicity, and in western Germany their posters are known and appreciated, too.
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Design Archive Feature, Illustration, Members Only Content, Regional Histories
Illustrated tourist brochures designed by Hans Schmandt. Despite his contributions to publicity design, there is not much information about Hans Schmandt. His clients included Deutsche Bahn and the Trans Europe Express.
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Design Archive Feature, Ephemera
Graphic design continues to be documented and an increase in individualised documentation and curated social media accounts are furthering our knowledge of design from a worldwide historic standpoint. I would not feel complete without the collected design that spans the shelves of my archive. It’s my identity, my passion and my hobby.
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