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Advertising Design, Design Archive Feature, Ephemera, Members Only Content
A collection of matchbox labels from around the world. Graphic design history of one of advertising's smallest and most overlooked formats.
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Design Archive Feature, Designer Profiles, Members Only Content, Regional Histories
Dick Elffers, had been the chosen designer for the printed matter of the Holland Festival for much of the festival's years, he used a painterly style for his work with the festival between 1954 and 1965 and later a more abstract style between 1969 and 1972. As well as publicity design, Elffers was commissioned to design the summer stamps to promote the Holland Festival in 1972.
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Design Archive Feature, Ephemera, Members Only Content, Regional Histories
Collected Japanese ephemera From the late 1920s to the mid-1930s, from Japan's transformative period, with its robust industrial force accompanied by an increase in consumer culture.
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The Central School of Arts and Crafts, featured in Modernist Graphic Design in Britain 1945–1980 by Ian McLaren and Tony Pritchard.
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