Format: Invitation

Collected invitations from the Design Reviewed graphic design archive.

The invitation is a format that concentrates graphic design into a single sheet or card, produced for exhibitions, events, and cultural occasions where the quality of the printed matter reflects the status of what it announces.

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Key Designers Associated with Format: Invitation

Explore invitation design in the archive. See also Exhibition Catalogues and Dutch Modernism.

Design artefacts related with Format: Invitation

Display Craft Exhibit, Colorcraft, Invitation, c. 1937

From the graphic design archive:

Display Craft Exhibit, Colorcraft, Invitation, c. 1937

  • Format: Invitation
  • Designer/s: Designer Unknown
  • Year: 1937
Vince Frost, CSD Voicebox Lecture, 1999

From the graphic design archive:

Vince Frost, CSD Voicebox Lecture, 1999

  • Format: Invitation
  • Year: 1999
Typography in Britain Today / Piet Zwart, Invitation, 1963

From the graphic design archive:

Typography in Britain Today / Piet Zwart, Invitation, 1963

  • Format: Exhibition Invitation
  • Year: 1963
Karen Hutchins, Thesis Exhibition, Edgecliff College, 1973

From the graphic design archive:

Karen Hutchins, Thesis Exhibition, Edgecliff College, 1973

  • Format: Invitation
  • Designer/s: Noel Martin
  • Year: 1973
Annual Cincinnati Salon of Photography, Invitation, Cincinnati Art Museum, 1949

From the graphic design archive:

Annual Cincinnati Salon of Photography, Invitation, Cincinnati Art Museum, 1949

  • Format: Invitation
  • Designer/s: Noel Martin
  • Year: 1949
Twelfth Annual Exhibition of Artists of Cincinnati and Vicinity, Invitation, Cincinnati Art Museum, 1957

From the graphic design archive:

Twelfth Annual Exhibition of Artists of Cincinnati and Vicinity, Invitation, Cincinnati Art Museum, 1957

  • Format: Invitation
  • Designer/s: Noel Martin
  • Year: 1957
Cincinnati Invitational Exhibition, Invitation, Cincinnati Art Museum, 1972

From the graphic design archive:

Cincinnati Invitational Exhibition, Invitation, Cincinnati Art Museum, 1972

  • Format: Invitation
  • Designer/s: Noel Martin
  • Year: 1972
An Exhibition of Graphic Design, Monotype, 1963

From the graphic design archive:

An Exhibition of Graphic Design, Monotype, 1963

  • Format: Invitation
  • Year: 1963
Type Directors Club Annual Lecture Series / Type in Action, Eight Visual Forums, 1953

From the graphic design archive:

Type Directors Club Annual Lecture Series / Type in Action, Eight Visual Forums, 1953

  • Format: Invitations
  • Designer/s: Freeman Craw and Others
  • Year: 1953

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