Information

Content includes:
Heiri Steiner, Zurich: Introducing this special issue
Ursula Nordstrom, New York: Some Thoughts on Children’s Books in the United States
John Ryder, London: Children’s Books in England
Horst Kunnemann, Hamburg: Present and Future Evolution of the German Picture-Book
Rudolf C. Hoenig, Zurich: Thoughts on the Children’s Book in Switzerland
Christine Chagnoux, Paris: Children’s Book Production in France Today
Bettina Hurlimann, Zurich: Notes on Japanese Picture-Books
Zbigniew Rychlicki, Warsaw: Children’s Book Illustration in Poland
Dusan Roll, Bratislava: Development of Children’s Book Illustration in Czechoslovakia
Franz Caspar, Zurich: The Children’s Picture-Book Today

Details

Linked Information

Graphis 155, 1971. Cover design by Walter Grieder.
Graphis 155, 1971. Cover design by Walter Grieder.
More graphic design artefacts
From the design archive:
From the design archive:
From the design archive:
From the design archive:
More graphic design history articles

Members Content

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.

Members Content

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.

Members Content

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.