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Design Archive Feature, Magazines & Publishing, Members Only Content, Regional Histories
Industrial design was an American design magazine featuring furniture, ceramics, housewares, appliances, automobiles, buildings, radios, projectors, televisions, and many other objects designed for the postwar middle class. First published in the 1950s by Charles Whitney with Alvin Lustig as art director.
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Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content, Movements, Typography & Type Design
From Jugend and Ver Sacrum to Penrose Annual, an essay on design movements, shaping modernism, and early graphic design.
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Advertising Design, Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content
The collection of works I've gathered, designed for Olympia-Werke, showcases the height of mid-century German commercial artistry. The work was collated in a branded folder and contained forty brochures, advertisements and manuals.
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Design Archive Feature, Magazines & Publishing, Members Only Content
Graphis is one of the industries most long-standing magazines. It was first published in 1944 and founded by Walter Herdeg and Walter Amstutz in Zurich, Switzerland. It was released bimonthly and was trilingual, with articles in English, French and German.
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