German graphic design

"The early twentieth century was the most significant period of all in the development of modern design.... The design profession was born...

Jan Tschichold's re-design of the German Printers Association journal. He had been invited to showcase his collection of contemporary graphics and he went the whole way, even redesigning the cover and inside layout, much to the shock of the editors.

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This is a series of advertisements for Ovomaltine designed by Carlo Vivarelli with advertising consultant Ernst Baenziger in Zurich. Some ads were in multi-color but could be changed to a two-color run for newspapers, before 1958.

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Walter Dexel. Die Sport Ausstellung (The Sport Exhibition) (Poster for exhibition in Magdeburg). 1929. Photolithograph. 33 1/8 x 23 1/2" (84.1 x 59.7 cm). W. Pfannkuch & Co., Magdeburg. Purchase Fund, Jan Tschichold Collection. 339.1937. Architecture & Design

Stedelijk Museum Poster, 1965 Wim Crouwel (1928) is a Dutch graphic designer and typographer. He studied Fine Arts at Academie Minerva in Groningen, The Netherlands, and typography at the Gerrit...

Emil Ruder, 10 Zürcher Maler (10 Zurich Painters), 1957. The l/c "e" above the "u" is curious. An amended error, perhaps, or a standard solution for a missing e-dieresis?

Swiss sports poster, designer Jürg Schaffer 1969.

German graphic designer Anton Stankowski (1906–1998) was a master of the minimal—and a pioneer of what was referred to as “constructive graphic art” that involved using photographic media. He was also a master of visual shorthand, with emphasis on logos, the minimalist Deutsche Bank, the Münchner Rückversicherungen, REWE and Olympic Congress Baden-Baden. I recently found a long-lost file with a portfolio of ads he designed for Standard Elektrik Lorenz from his hometown, Stutt

A current exhibition of the great German graphic designer and an excuse to showcase more of his work.

Five incredible posters by Emil Ruder. via 80magazine.

This book tells the exciting design history of West Berlin. The posters of SFB, using modernist graphics to announce concerts of new music.

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An advertisement for Monotype and it's Universal setting machine, designed by Herbert Bayer 1926.