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Ben Shahn. (James Thrall Soby)
Interrelations. (Will Burtin and L.P. Lessing)
AOA, American Overseas Airlines (G.O. Austen)
Booksellers’ Posters in the Romantic Era (W.H. Allner)
Walter Trier. Some of his Lilliput Covers (Georgine Oeri)
The Early Pottery of Islam (Arthur Lane)
Graphic Art on Old Swiss Mill Sacks (A. Rudlinger)
Joan Miro. A Surrealist Mural in an American Hotel (F. Stahly)
New Swiss Posters (Georgine Oeri)
Stands at the Swiss Industries Fair Basle (H. Neuburg)
Calixte. Advertising and Elegance (Colette Vasselon)
Reflections on Original Lithography (R. Wehrlin)
Thomas Theodor Heine (Ernst Penzoldt)
Jo vol Kalckreuth (Axel von Ambesser)
Enrico Bo. A Young Painter in his Old Days (Fabrizio Clerici)

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Graphis 22, 1948. Cover design by Jacques Nathan-Garamond
Graphis 22, 1948. Cover design by Jacques Nathan-Garamond
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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.