GRAPHIS ANNUAL 1952-1953
Walter Herdeg
Walter Herdeg (ed.): GRAPHIS ANNUAL 1952-1953 . Zurich: Graphis Press 1953. First edition. A very good hardcover Book with a near very good dust jacket: DJ is price-clipped, chipped and worn to the edges. Former owners signature on FEP, otherwise interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print. Text and captions in English, German and French.
9.5 x 12 book with 202 pages and 753 examples (34 in color) of the best in modern graphic design, circa 1953 . A nice copy of the First Graphis Annual. With a name like Graphis, it's got to be good.
Contents:
- 159 Posters
- 103 Booklets
- 100 Folders
- 117 Advertisements
- 29 Trade marks
- 49 Packagings
- 15 Calendars
- 21 Record covers
- 67 Book jackets
- 44 Magazine covers
- 49 Miscellaneous
Designers represented in this volume were the leading practitioners of modern graphic design, and include: Richard Avedon, Saul Bass, Herbert Bayer, Lester Beall, Joseph Binder, Alexey Brodovitch, Jan Bons, Will Burtin, Erberto Carboni, Jean Carlu, Thomas Eckersley, Hans Erni, George Giusti, Franco Grignani, Armin Hoffmann, Rudolph de Harak, Gyorgy Kepes, Ray Komai, Raymond Loewy, Alvin Lustig, Jan Lenica, Josef Muller- Brockmann, Hans Moller, jacques Nathan, Irving Penn, Giovanni Pintori, Paul Rand, Herbert Spencer, Ladislav Sutnar, Jan Tschichold, Andy Warhol, and many, many more.
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