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Willem Sandberg - Dutch Designer and Illustrator

Willem Sandberg – Bij voorkeur een ruwe contour

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  • Format: Book/Publication
  • Year: 1986
  • Size: 140mm x 220mm
Willem Jacob Henri Berend Sandberg, commonly known as Willem Sandberg, was born in 1897 in Amersfoort, Netherlands. In 1945, Sandberg became the director of the Stedelijk Museum, where he was responsible for artists and art forms, designing many of the museum's catalogues, posters, and exhibitions using his typographic experiments. He designed around 380 posters and over 250 catalogues and also collaborated with other designers, including Otto Treumann and Dick Elffers.

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Willem Sandberg - Bij voorkeur een ruwe contour
Willem Sandberg – Bij voorkeur een ruwe contour
Willem Jacob Henri Berend Sandberg, commonly known as Willem Sandberg, was born in 1897 in Amersfoort, Netherlands. In 1945, Sandberg became the director of the Stedelijk Museum, where he was responsible for artists and art forms, designing many of the museum's catalogues, posters, and exhibitions using his typographic experiments. He designed around 380 posters and over 250 catalogues and also collaborated with other designers, including Otto Treumann and Dick Elffers.
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  • Format: Magazine
  • Year: 1930
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  • Designer/s: Karl Oskar Blase
  • Year: 1962
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Design, Council of Industrial Design, 101, May 1957

  • Format: Magazine
  • Designer/s: Tom Wolsey
  • Year: 1957
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Among the young graphic artists of Berlin, who set to work after the war, Hans Adolf Albitz and Ruth Albitz-Geiß can claim special attention. In a short time, at a period when economic conditions were pretty unfavourable, they worked themselves so to the fore that their names came to mean something in Berlin publicity, and in western Germany their posters are known and appreciated, too.

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Schweiz. Konferenz für Sicherheit im Strassenverkehr Bern. designed by Hans Hartmann, Bern in 1963
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Forward and a selection of poster designs entered to the Die besten Plakate des Jahres 1963. Featuring the work of Hans Hartmann, Jörg Hamburger, Jost Hochuli, and Armin Hofmann.