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Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content, Regional Histories, Typography & Type Design
While gathering all my type catalogues, brochures, and instructions on print processes, I found a little book titled 43 American Typographic Designers. I have included biographical notes from the designers featured in the exhibition accompanied by artefacts I have collected that they designed.
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Design Archive Feature, Designer Profiles, Members Only Content, Regional Histories
Yoshio Hayakawa is one of Japan’s most influential post-war poster designers. His work represents a fusion of traditional Japanese art and European modernism often using soft, poetic brushstrokes and refined colour palettes and capturing the elegance of Japanese aesthetics while integrating the clean lines and bold visual language of Western design.
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Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content, Regional Histories, Typography & Type Design
60 examples of Czech typography from Typografia Vol. 21 (1910). Czech commercial printing and book design as Secession ornament progressed to early modernist typography, with work by Alois Rieger, Methoděj Kaláb, Alois Chvála and many more.
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Advertising Design, Artefact Spotlight, Design Archive Feature, Typography & Type Design
An article by Jan Tschichold illustrated with examples of publicity produced by Brann of Zürich.
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