Advertising Design, Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content

• Switzerland
• International Typographic Style (Swiss Style)

Advertising a University Ball at St. Gallen, Switzerland, 1961

Perusing an issue of Der Druckspiegel from 1962, I found these fantastic examples of Swiss Design, produced for the University Ball at the University in St. Gallen, Switzerland, in 1961. The advertising matter included posters, newspaper advertisements, cinema slides, invitation cards and a booklet. 

Corporate Identity & Branding, Design Archive Feature, Designer Profiles, Members Only Content

• Japan
• Japanese Modernism

Yusaku Kamekura and his Mark Design by Masataka Ogawa

The background of Kamekura's mark designs is his boldness in eliminating all the waste, combining simplification derived from Japanese traditional family crests and Western intellectual mechanics of formation with a sharp modern sense of composition.

Book Reviews & Press Releases

Design after Capitalism: Transforming Design Today for an Equitable

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.