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 1936 article on Ludwig Hohlwein, originally in German, published in Graphische Nachrichten, Vol 13, 11, November 1934