GRAPHIC DESIGNERS IN EUROPE
Volumes 1-4
Henri Hillebrand [Series editior]
Henri Hillebrand [Series editior]: GRAPHIC DESIGNERS IN EUROPE, volumes 1-4 [all published]. New York: Universe, 1971 - 1973. First English editions. Text in French, English and German. Quartos. Embossed brick cloth printed in black. Photographically printed dust jackets. 492 pp. 695 illustrations. Former owners signatures on endpapers of Volumes 3 and 4. Volumes 1 - 3 price clipped. Textblock edge dusty and jacket worn along top edges. A very good or better set. Easily the best books ever published for most of these modern graphic masters.
VOLUME 1: Jan Lenica, Jean-Michel Folon, Josef Muller-Brockmann and Dick Elffers. 7.25 x 10 book with 113 pages and 146 illustrations (38 in color). Large groups of design samples from these four important European designers, with accompanying philosophies and biographical text in French, English and German provided by the designers. Folon did some New Yorker covers.
VOLUME 2: Giovanni Pintori, Edward Bawden, Hans Hillmann and Herbert Leupin. 7.25 x 10 book with 125 pages and 186 illustrations (71 in color). Large groups of design samples from these four important European designers, with accompanying philosophies and biographical text in French, English and German provided by the designers.
VOLUME 3: Karl Gerstner, Crosby /Fletcher/Forbes, Andre Francois and Bob Gill. 7.25 x 10 book with 125 pages and 127 illustrations (41 in color). Large groups of design samples from these four important European designers, with accompanying philosophies and biographical text in French, English and German provided by the designers.
VOLUME 4: Franco Grignani, Heinz Edelmann, Jacques Richez, and Celestino Piatti. 7.25 x 10 book with 129 pages and 236 illustrations (61 in color). Large groups of design samples from these four important European designers, with accompanying philosophies and biographical text in French, English and German provided by the designers.
An unusual set of Graphic Design anthologies that capture the zeitgeist of the late sixties quite nicely.
Spreads from this volume can be viewed here.
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