Content includes:
James Mosley: French academicians and modern typography: designing new types in the 1690s
Richard Southall: A survey of type design techniques before 1978
Michael Twyman: Engelmann’s Landscape alphabet
Robin Kinross: Type as critique
Gerrit Noordzij: Reply to Robin Kinross
Ole Lund: Why serifs are (still) important
Christopher Burke: Willy Wiegand and the Bremer Presse
Richard Hollis: Review of Graphic design (Jobling & Crowley)
Hendrik D.L. Vervliet: Review of Counterpunch (Smeijers)
Design Archive Feature, Magazines & Publishing, Members Only Content, Regional Histories
Industrial design was an American design magazine featuring furniture, ceramics, housewares, appliances, automobiles, buildings, radios, projectors, televisions, and many other objects designed for the postwar middle class. First published in the 1950s by Charles Whitney with Alvin Lustig as art director.
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Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content, Poster Design, Regional Histories
A selection of poster designs from Die besten Plakate des Jahres 1958 with a translated foreword by Maria Netter. Featuring the work of Müller-Brockmann, Celestino Piatti, Donald Brun and Armin Hofmann.
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Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content, Movements
Kinetic art refers to art the depends on movement for its desired effect and is closely related to op art. Upon scanning a few of the inner inserts from the Kinetics exhibition catalogue from the Hayward Gallery, London, 1970, I came across these five small manifestos on kinetic art.
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