GRAPHIS PACKAGING
Walter Herdeg [Editor]
Walter Herdeg [Editor]: GRAPHIS PACKAGING. Zurich: Graphis Press Corp., 1959. First edition. A nearly fine hardcover book in a very good or better dust jacket: jacket lightly edgeworn. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print. Cover design by Erberto Carboni.
9.5 x 12 hardcover book with 290 pages and 1,021 color and b/w reproductions of the best packaging design in the world, circa 1959. An outstanding volume: with a name like Graphis, it's got to be good.
This first Graphis volume devoted exclusively to packaging design includes original essays by Walter Herdeg, Will Burtin, Saul Bass, Ladislav Sutnar, Ralph Caplan, S. Neil Fujita and others.
Contents include:
- Foods
- Cosmetics
- household, miscellaneous
- sports, recreation
- pharmaceutical products
- stationery, wrapping paper
- gift packs
- shipping containers
- record covers
- and much more
Artists represented in this annual include Saul Bass, Saul Bass & Assoc., Herbert Bayer, Lester Beall, Brownjohn, Chermayeff & Geismar, Donald Brun, Fritz Buhler, Will Burtin, Ivan Chermayeff, Seymour Chwast, Jean Colin, Columbia Records Studio, Salvador Dali, Louis Danziger, Robin Day, Louis Dorfsman, Charles Eames, Hermann Eidenbenz, Ollie Eksell, Dick Elffers, Piero Fornasetti, Kaj Franck, Antonio Frasconi, Karl Gerstner, Morton Goldsholl, Walter Grieder, Rene Gruau, Rudolg de Harak, Earl Harley, Ashley Havinden, F. H. K. Henrion, George Him, G. Honegger-Lavater, Max Huber, Charles Kuhn, Helmuth Kurtz, Werner Labbe, Walter Landor & Assoc., Herbert Leupin, Stig Lindberg, Leo Lionni, Raymond Loewy & Assoc., Joseph Low, Herb Lubalin, Alvin Lustig, Veronica de Majo, W. M. de Majo, Derek Mills, Adam Moltke, Pierre Monnerat, George Nelson, Erik Nitsche, Siegfried Odermatt, Hiroshi Ohchi, Gio Ponti, Paul Rand, Elsa Schiaparelli, Hans Schleger, Max Schmid, Saul Steinberg, Ladislav Sutnar, Armando Testa, George Tscherny, Toshiaki Yokota and many many more.
Spreads from this volume can be viewed here.
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