Content includes:
Defining the Wolfsonian Collection through Objects, Presentations, and Perceptions – Joel M. Hoffman
Stalin as Isis and Ra: Socialist Realism and the Art of Design – John E. Bowlt
Modernity and Tradition in Hungarian Furniture, 1900-1938: Three Generations – Juliet Kinchin
W. A. S. Benson, Machinery, and the Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain – Alan Crawford
Feast of Dutch Diversity: Nieuwe Kunst Book Design – Alston W. Purvis
Mobilizing the Nation: Italian Propaganda in the Great War – Thomas Row
The Tripoli Trade Fair and the Representation of Italy’s African Colonies – Brian L. McLaren
From World War I to the Popular Front: The Art and Activism of Hugo Gellert – James Wechsler
Looking at Labor: Images of Work in 1930s American Art – Erika Doss
“Painting Section” in Black and White: Ethel Magafan’s “Cotton Pickers” – Susan Valdés Dapena
Advertising Design, Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content
Little is known about the designer Günther Heil. he established his graphic studio in Berlin and designed many advertisements for 8mm and 16mm film distributor Bruno Schmidt in the 1960s. These were created in the same era as the film distributor Atlas Films was sending films to art-house theatres and were hiring designers Hans Hillmann, Hans Michel, Günther Kieser, Wolfgang Schmidt and Karl Oskar Blase.
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Advertising Design, Artefact Spotlight, Design Archive Feature, Typography & Type Design
An article by Jan Tschichold illustrated with examples of publicity produced by Brann of Zürich.
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How design can transcend the logics, structures, and subjectivities of capitalism: a framework, theoretical grounding, and practical principles. A new book published by MIT Press written by Matthew Wizinsky.
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