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Graphic Design International (Igildo G. Biesele, 1977, ABC Verlag, Zurich)
Graphic Design International: Creative Work of Selected Colleges of Design from 12 Countries Igildo G. Biesele ABC Verlag, Zurich 1977 Text in German, French, and English. 25 x 25,5 cm Hardcover 215 pages Creative work of selected Colleges of Graphic Design from 12 countries. 12 leading Colleges of Design in the Federal Republic of Germany, [...]
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Exposition Tolmer (Bibliothèque Forney, 1986)
Exposition Tolmer Softcover, 260 x 220 mm 129 pages Printed by Les Presses Artistiques 1986 ISBN 2-7012-0578-6 french text The legendary Tolmer signature was like a quality label in France in the first half of the XXth century. Vertical integration was the key: the best designers, best illustrators, best print techniques, all in one home [...]
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Typoésie (Jérôme Peignot, 1993)
Typoésie by Jérôme Peignot Published byImprimerie Nationale (26 octobre 1993) in the collection “Art Liv Lg” 461 pages Written in French only This book was the last book publish with tradtionnal type setting by the Imprimerie National, printed on heavy paper. Most of the work reproduced are printed in black, 2 colors (mainly black and [...]
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Pioneers of modern typography (Herbert Spencer, 1969)
Pioneers of modern typography Herbert Spencer, 1969 (pictures from the second edition) Lund Humphries, london 8.5 x 12 hardcover book 160 pages and 161 b/w Herbert Spencer Pioneers of Modern Typography has been the encyclopedia of Avant Guarde typography for many decades. Featuring such inspirational pioneers as, El Lissitzky, Theo van Doesburg, Alexander Rodchenko, Jan [...]
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Graphic Design Manual, Principles & pratice (Armin Hofman, 1965, Niggli verlag)
Graphic Design Manual, Principles & pratice Armin Hofman 1965 (reprints in 1977, 2004, 2011; american edition at his 17th reprints) Niggli verlag 25 x 22 cm 200 pages 301 illustrations Pictures of the american edition by Van Nostrand Reinhold company. 18/02/09 – Excerpts from Armin Hofmann’s Graphic Design Manual: Principles and Practice published in 1965. My copy, [...]
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Connect
Connect Hardback, 343 x 245 mm 8 pages, plus colophon Offset, laser printing Conception, editing, layout and typesetting by David Bennewith / Colophon Text by Ken Garland and David Bennewith Typeset in AG Book Rounded by Günter Gerhard Lange, 1980 Published by Colophon Printed by Drukkerij Mart Spruijt, Amsterdam 1st. Edition 500 copies, 2010 ISBN 978-90-815569-1-0 Edition: 500 Weight: [...]
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Grid System in graphic design (J. Muller-Brockmann, 1968 – Niggli Verlag)
Grid Systems in Graphic Design Hardcover 1968 (reprint in 1981, 1986, 1996, 2011 – 6 reprints actually) 176 pages Verlag Niggli AG; German, English 299.72 x 213.36 mm / 11.8 x 8.4 inch 357 b&w examples and illustrations. The dustjacket of the cover is, like other swiss books, a demonstration of the designer’s skills. The [...]
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Graphis Annual 1960-1961 (Graphis press, Zurich, 1960)
GRAPHIS ANNUAL ’60/61 Walter Herdeg Graphis Press, Zurich 1961 Hardcover with dust jacket 9.5 x 12 211 pages, 832 examples ( 97 in color) Contents: Advertisements Book jackets Booklets Calendars Christmas Cards Film Advertising House Organs Indexes Introduction Letterheads Magazine covers Packaging Posters Record covers Television Trade marks Designers represented in this volume were the leading [...]
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Graphis #100 The Sun in Art
Graphis magazine issue 100 The Sun in Art Walter Herdeg (editor) Graphis Press 1962 (softcover), 1971 (hardcover) Hardcover & soft cover (softcover as a classic issue, hardcover as a reprint) 156 pages 11.9 x 9.1 x 0.6 inches English, german, french This book was based on the 100th issue of the renown magazine Graphis. Well [...]
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Minizine (Marco Ambrosi, 2012)
Minizine #2 Marco Ambrosi & contributors 188 x 227 mm 24 pages 250 copies Free This issue deals with 4 international graphi artists, from the UK, Italy and Belgium. It’s also interesting to note that these artists are not from the latest generation of the graphic design scene but started during the 1980′ or even [...]
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Lars Muller publisher: reprints
The press has published a number of facsimile editions of outstanding magazines and others publications of 1920s and 30s avant-garde. A few archive copies are available especially for collectors and libraries. Lars Muller: reprints
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Graphis #100 The Sun in Art
Graphis magazine issue 100 The Sun in Art Walter Herdeg (editor) Graphis Press 1962 (softcover), 1971 (hardcover) Hardcover & soft cover (softcover as a classic issue, hardcover as a reprint) 156 pages 11.9 x 9.1 x 0.6 inches English, german, french This book was based on the 100th issue of the renown magazine Graphis
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Wim Crouwel (1928- )
Copyright : http://www.typolover.com/portraits.htm Willem Hendrik (Wim) Crouwel (Groningen, 1928) is a Dutch graphic designer and typographer. 1947-1949: studied Fine Arts at Academie Minerva in Groningen, Netherlands. Also studied typography at what is now the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. In the 1950s: worked
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Broom (H. Loeb & A. Kreymborg, 1921-1924)
Broom: An International Magazine of the Arts was a little magazine founded by Harold Loeb and Alfred Kreymborg and published from November 1921 to January 1924. Initially, the magazine was printed in Europe with the intention of bringing new, avant-garde art back to the U.S. Loeb later claimed he no longer remembered why he
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PLexus magazines for sale.
One of our reader is selling a complet set of Plexus magazine. Issue n° 1 is in the worst condition of the set, and it has some sellotape stuck on the front. When the others issues are in a good state. The requested price the the 36 issues is around £360, a reasonable price when [...]
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