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Visual Transformation: Creative Tendencies in Graphic Design, ABC Edition, 1982

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Design: Diethelm, Walter. Printer: Offset & Buchdruck Ltd., Zurich
Creative tendencies in graphic design, fine art, technology and information techniques. “Seeing, viewing, shaping – Life means change, conversion and transformation. Visualization makes it possible to grasp the idea of transformation. The extent and speed of change in a man-made environment are to be seen in urban development and also in the developed landscape, ever more subjected to the needs of traffic, building and industrialisation.”

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  • Format: Book
  • Year: 1982
  • Client/Publisher: ABC Edition
  • Size: 257mm x 251mm

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Visual Transformation - Creative Tendencies in Graphic Design, ABC Edition, 1982
Visual Transformation – Creative Tendencies in Graphic Design, ABC Edition, 1982

 

Visual Transformation - Creative Tendencies in Graphic Design, ABC Edition, 1982
Visual Transformation – Creative Tendencies in Graphic Design, ABC Edition, 1982

 

Visual Transformation - Creative Tendencies in Graphic Design, ABC Edition, 1982
Visual Transformation – Creative Tendencies in Graphic Design, ABC Edition, 1982

 

Visual Transformation - Creative Tendencies in Graphic Design, ABC Edition, 1982
Visual Transformation – Creative Tendencies in Graphic Design, ABC Edition, 1982
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