Category: Artefact Spotlight

Close-up features on individual artefacts from the Design Reviewed graphic design archive. The stories behind specific pieces of printed design history.

Artefact Spotlight features take a single piece from the archive and examine it in depth. Including its context, its designer, its place in design history, and what makes it worth preserving.

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An article by Jan Tschichold illustrated with examples of publicity produced by Brann of Zürich.

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A mixed set of tickets from various Japanese lotteries dating from 1956 to 1985, including the Tokyo Metropolitan, West Japan and National Local Autonomy lotteries.

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The Face shocked the world of magazines, and the design industry, with its revolutionary design by Neville Brody.

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A 1939 article on American designer, Walter Frank Bomar, published in The Inland Printer, Vol 104, No. 03, 1939.