The Complete Commercial Artist (現代商業美術全集) was a Japanese series published in the 1920s and 30s. It presenting commercial art, lettering, and advertising design from both Japan and overseas.
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Magazines & Publishing, Design Archive Feature, Designer Profiles, Members Only Content
Most people know Raygun as David Carson’s magazine, but the story didn’t end when he left in 1995. This members article looks at Chris Ashworth, the designer who took over and brought a grid, a photocopier and a hands-on approach to the pages that followed.
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Design Translated, Designer Profiles, Members Only Content, Typography & Type Design
A 1919 article on Hanns Thaddäus Hoyer, originally in German, published in Das Plakat, Vol. 10, No. 4, July 1919.
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Design Archive Feature, Designer Profiles, Magazines & Publishing, Members Only Content, Typography & Type Design
Karel Martens is one of the most influential Dutch graphic designers, co-founder of the Werkplaats Typografie, working across books, magazines, coins, postage stamps and telephone cards
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Illustration, Ephemera, Members Only Content
A mixed set of tickets from various Japanese lotteries dating from 1956 to 1985, including the Tokyo Metropolitan, West Japan and National Local Autonomy lotteries.
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Magazines & Publishing, Members Only Content, Typography & Type Design
The Face shocked the world of magazines, and the design industry, with its revolutionary design by Neville Brody.
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Members Only Content, Designer Profiles
A 1939 article on American designer, Walter Frank Bomar, published in The Inland Printer, Vol 104, No. 03, 1939.
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