Magazine advertisment for Merkur supermarket designed by Gerstner, Gredinger + Kutter in the 1960s
Gerstner, Gredinger + Kutter’s advertisments for Merkur and the problem of ideographs, with a translated article by Masaru Katzumie from Graphic Design 15, April 1964

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