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Content includes:
Max Hunziker’s Zinc Hand Etching (Hans Kasser)
Purposeful Packing (Imre Reiner)
Graphic Art in the Newspaper (Edwin Arnet)
Italian Printers’ Emblems in the 15th and 16th Cent. (Dr. W.J. Meyer)
Humour in the Show-Window
Famous Artists in the Service of Advertising (Container Corporation)
A Swiss Tobacco Firm Advertises its Cigars (Hans Kasser)
Sascha Morgenthaler’s new Dolls and Model Figures (Hans Kasser)

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Graphis 01-02, 1944. Cover design by Max Hunziker
Graphis 01-02, 1944. Cover design by Max Hunziker
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Rudolph de Harak designed over 50 record covers for Westminster Records as well as designing covers for Columbia, Oxford and Circle record labels. His bright, geometric graphics can easily be distinguished and recognised.

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The typographic designs produced for the National Theatre by Ken Briggs are not only iconic and depict the Swiss typographic style of the time, but remain a key example of the creation of a cohesive brand style.

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I first came across Kens work in the Unit Edition’s superb monograph, Structure and Substance, published in 2012. Although I had owned a few of the British industrial design magazines, Design, for a few years before, in which Ken had designed numerous covers for.
In the ambitious new monograph Rational Simplicity: Rudolph de Harak, Graphic Designer, Volume shines a light on the complete arc of the exceptionally rich and varied career of Rudolph de Harak, showcasing his vibrant, graphic, formally brilliant work, which blazed a colourful trail through the middle decades of the twentieth century.