Content:
Supplements
A selection of decorative commercial printing specimens, recommendation cards, business stationery, advertisements, and typographic layouts reproduced as examples of contemporary Czech applied typography and commercial printing practice. The supplementary section also includes reader-submitted monochrome and colour works alongside examples of ornamental typography, practical job-printing, and modern stationery design from Prague, Vienna, and other Central European printing houses.
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Articles and editorial texts by Karel Dyrink and Otakar Císař exploring decorative typography, applied graphics, commercial printing, and contemporary developments in Czech design and printing culture. Issues also include reports and proceedings from the Typografia association and editorial committee, alongside printing industry announcements, literature reviews, trade notices, miscellany, reader correspondence, and editorial notes.
From the graphic design archive:
From the graphic design archive:
From the graphic design archive:
From the graphic design archive:
Magazines & Publishing, Members Only Content, Movements
The Arts and Crafts movement, in particular its graphic design output is less documented than Art Nouveau and was primarily associated with Britain. Where Art Nouveau spread through international exhibitions and a shared decorative vocabulary that translated easily across posters, magazines and architecture, Arts and Crafts was rooted in British guilds, workshops and societies rather […]
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Emiliano Grignani is the grandson of Franco Grignani, one of the most versatile and influential Italian designers. Well-known for his advertising, painting and the way he could visualise motion in such a unique way. I interviewed Emiliano to find out more about Franco and his influence on graphic design and the great resource, https://www.francogrignani.info.
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Design Archive Feature, Movements, Poster Design, Typography & Type Design
In minor printed matter we constantly meet the new typography, but it is relatively rare to find posters designed on the new lines. And yet poster-designing is a field where new typographical methods might be employed with great effect.
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