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the seven stages of a letter, GPO, 1966 designed by Negus & Sharland designreviewed.com/artefacts… #gpo #negussharland #britishdesign

Im Blickpunkt… National Rückgeldautomatik, Brochure, c. mid-1960s designreviewed.com/artefacts…

Idea 44, 1960. Cover design by Ikko Tanaka. #ikkotanaka designreviewed.com/artefacts…

Graphis 163, 1972. Cover design by Walter Breker. designreviewed.com/artefacts… #walterbreker #graphis

“Design is a very different kind of activity from painting, sculpture, or crafts, even though there are points of contact between those areas.” Alvin Lustig #alvinlustig #graphicdesign #designhistory #modernism #bookcoverdesign

New on Design Reviewed: 56 printed inserts from Typographische Jahrbücher, a German printing trade journal, all from 1906. I’ve been collecting issues for several years and now have more than sixty. What first drew me to them were the samples tipped in between the pages: letterheads, menus, price lists, business cards, theatre tickets, advertisements and specimens from the type foundries and ink makers of the day. Selected from issues 3, 6, 10, 11 and 12, scanned, cropped and translated from my own copies. designreviewed.com/typograph… #graphicdesign #typography #designhistory #jugendstil #printing #ephemera

Historic examples of publicity design in the 1920s featured in Posters and Publicity 1929. designreviewed.com/artefacts… #posterdesign #1920s #designhistory #graphicdesign

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The Common Sense of Science by J. Bronowski, Pelican Books, 1966. Cover design by Bruce Robertson designreviewed.com/artefacts…

A cover by F.H.K. Henrion for the January 1953 issue of World Review, the London monthly of politics, literature and the arts. The issue’s theme was Art Nouveau. designreviewed.com/artefacts…

The 1 September 1962 issue of TOPIC. The cover story covers the nuclear disarmament movement under the line “The banning, marching, sitting people”. The magazine design was by Tom Wolsey designreviewed.com/artefacts…

Typographische Monatsblätter, 12, 1972. Design by Wolfgang Weingart designreviewed.com/artefacts…

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P Miziakin, 1923. Pages from a month-by-month calendar for 1923, given free as a supplement to the journal Economic Life. Scanned from Soviet Commercial Design of the Twenties, M Anikst, E Chernevich, 1987 designreviewed.com/artefacts… #soviet #graphicdesign

Graphik – Werbung + Formgebung, 04, 1958 Cover illustration by Paul Rand. (From the picture book: “I know a lot of things” by Ann and Paul Rand. designreviewed.com/artefacts… #paulrand #illustration #graphicdesign

Theo van Doesburg Compositions (The Cow) 1917 - 1918 Find more design history at designreviewed.com

The work of Burton Kramer scanned from Burton Kramer Identities, Greg Durrell, 2011 designreviewed.com/artefacts… #burtonkramer #GraphicDesign

Olivetti Divisumma 24, international advertisement, 1959. Designed by Giovanni Pintori. Found on the back of Graphis 102, 1962 designreviewed.com/artefacts… #pintori #olivetti

Design Reviewed Recommends. The latest addition to the @LarsMullerBooks Museum für Gestaltung Zürich Poster Collection series, highlights the advent of the poster and the beginnings of graphic design as an independent design discipline: between the wars, photography, typography and visual abstraction were at the heart of the poster; based on the reform movements at the turn of the century and the various “isms” in art after 1900, it became both a reflection of innovative design ideas and an expression of the zeitgeist and its radical socio-political utopias. A highly recommended set of books to collect: designreviewed.com/series/mu…