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Dick Elffers - Dutch Designer and Illustrator

Designer: Dick Elffers

Articles Featuring the Work of Dick Elffers

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Drukkersweekblad en Autolijn Kerstnummer 1952, 1952 Jan Bons
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Drukkersweekblad en Autolijn: Compiling Dutch Design History

Each year, leading Dutch artists were commissioned to design the covers and inner pages of Drukkersweekblad en Autolijn. Including designers included Dick Elffers, Willem Sandberg, Jan van Toorn, Wim Crouwel, and Jurriaan Schrofer. The journal documented important design trends and developments in The Netherlands.

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Holland Festival 72 Stamp Designed by Dick Elffers
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Dick Elffers and his 1972 Holland Festival and Floriade stamp designs

Dick Elffers, had been the chosen designer for the printed matter of the Holland Festival for much of the festival's years, he used a painterly style for his work with the festival between 1954 and 1965 and later a more abstract style between 1969 and 1972. As well as publicity design, Elffers was commissioned to design the summer stamps to promote the Holland Festival in 1972.

Artefacts Featuring the Work of Dick Elffers

Drukkersweekblad en Autolijn Kerstnummer 1948, 1948. Cover design by Dick Elffers
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Drukkersweekblad en Autolijn Kerstnummer 1948, 1948

  • Format: Book
  • Designer/s: Dick Elffers
  • Year: 1948
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De 8 en Opbouw, 10e jaargang No 13, 24 June 1939
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De 8 en Opbouw, 10e jaargang No 13, 24 June 1939

  • Format: Magazine
  • Designer/s: Paul Schuitema (cover illustration by Dick Elffers)
  • Year: 1939
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Drukkersweekblad en Autolijn Kerstnummer 1952, 1952. Cover design by Dick Elffers
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Drukkersweekblad en Autolijn Kerstnummer 1952, 1952

  • Format: Book
  • Designer/s: Dick Elffers
  • Year: 1952
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Kerstnummer Drukkersweekblad en Autolijn Kleur en Motief, Colour and Pattern, 1967. Designed by Dick Elffers
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Drukkersweekblad en Autolijn Kerstnummer 1967, Kleur en Motief, Colour and Pattern, 1967

  • Format: Magazine
  • Designer/s: Dick Elffers and Paul Mijksenaar
  • Year: 1967
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Drukkersweekblad en Autolijn Kerstnummer 1962 / 53, 1962
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Drukkersweekblad en Autolijn Kerstnummer 1962 / 53, 1962

  • Format: Book
  • Designer/s: Jan Bons, Wim Brusse, Wim Crouwel, Dick Elffers, Willem Sandberg, Otto Treumann, Ed van der Elsken (photography)
  • Year: 1962
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Kuntstharsfabriek Synthese N.V Katwijk Holland, 1950s. Designed by Dick Elffers
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Kuntstharsfabriek Synthese N.V Katwijk Holland, 1950s

  • Format: Book
  • Designer/s: Dick Elffers
  • Year: 1950s
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Facetten van boekdruk 1952. Designed by Dick Elffers
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Facetten van boekdruk 1952

  • Format: Book
  • Designer/s: Dick Elffers
  • Year: 1952
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Publishing and Printing in The Netherlands, 1951. Dick Elffers
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Publishing and Printing in The Netherlands, 1951

  • Format: Book
  • Designer/s: Dick Elffers
  • Year: 1951
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Holland Festival 72 / Floriade 72, Netherland Stamps, 1972. Designed by Dick Elffers
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Holland Festival 72 / Floriade 72, Netherland Stamps, 1972. Designed by Dick Elffers

  • Format: Stamps
  • Designer/s: Dick Elffers
  • Year: 1972
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Dick Elffers - typografie en affiches
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Dick Elffers – typografie en affiches

  • Format: Fold-out
  • Designer/s: Dick Elffers
  • Year: 1967
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Gebrauchsgraphik, 12, 1952 cover by Dick Elffers
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Gebrauchsgraphik, 12, 1952

  • Format: Magazine
  • Designer/s: Dick Elffers
  • Year: 1952
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Graphic Design 08, 1962. Cover design by Tadashi Ohashi
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Tadashi Ohashi. Japanese Graphic Designer | 1916 – 1988

Tadashi Ohashi was at the forefront of Japan's postwar design movement, with his illustrations widely celebrated. In 1952, he became the chief designer for Meiji Seika Confectionery, producing some of his most renowned work.

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La Biennale di Venezia XII, Festival Internazionale Di Musica Contemporanea, 1949. Designed by Max Huber
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Max Huber. Swiss Graphic Designer | 1919 – 1992

Max Huber was born in 1919 in Switzerland. He studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule (School of Arts and Crafts) in Zurich where he excelled in graphic design and photography.  Huber worked across advertising, packaging, design and industrial design. He had a distinctive style that skillfully blended bright hues with photomontage.

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Design (Japan), 027, 1961. Cover design by Ryuichi Yamashiro
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Ryuichi Yamashiro. Japanese Graphic Designer | 1920 – 1977

Ryuichi Yamashiro (山城隆)  was a Japanese graphic designer and artist, born in Osaka in 1920. He belonged to the same generation of pioneering Japanese designers as Kohei Sugiura, Kiyoshi Awazu, Yoshio Hayakawa, Yūsaku Kamekura, Kazumasa Nagai, and Ikko Tanaka.