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Monthly Archives: January 2016
Ernst Reichl, Wide Awake Typographer website
Ernst Reichl, a prominent American book designer from the 30s to the 70s did something no other book designer has done, to my knowledge: he wrote comments and stories and critiques about many of his book designs on index cards, … Continue reading
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Graphic Design Canon?
Some of my first graphic design history research focussed on finding women designers, after I noticed they were missing. One way to discuss the ‘missing’ was to show how few had work published in some major GD history books. The … Continue reading
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Cipe Pineles: 10th Pioneer?
Early in my research about Cipe Pineles (which ultimately resulted in “Cipe Pineles: A Life of Design,” WW Norton, 1999), I decided that the book “Nine Pioneers in American Graphic Design” by Roger Remington and Barbara Hodik (MIT, 1989) should … Continue reading
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Italian Political Design
During a long stay in Italy, I became interested in the sophisticated design for political parties in Italy. Several prominent designers were engaged by different political parties to devise the images and messages in ways that never appear in the USA. … Continue reading
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“For the Voice” Mayakovsky and Lissitzky
Several years of research and graduate student experiments resulted in the publication of a facsimile edition of El Lissitzky’s designs for Mayakovsky’s poems, sometimes titled “For Reading Out Loud” and sometimes titled “For the Voice.” The final publication was a collaboration … Continue reading
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