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Content includes:
Special Feature: Typo-Graphics of Herb Lubalin
Alan Fletcher: Fifty Years of Graphic Work (and Play) – Text by Emily King
“sans serif does not represent the final stage”
karl gerstner international designer, artist and author, new books and a new typeface. – Text and Design by Helmut Schmid
drawing works of Isao Makino
A Cultural History of Contemporary Design Vol. 1 Masaki Kojima – Text by Idea with Barbora
Interview with Fumio Tachibana “about Kyutai”
Comments from Tasuya Ariyama, Gabin Ito, Yoshihisa Shirai, HeiQuiti Harata
The History of Typos – Text and Design by Hirokazu Mukai
A Recent History of Writing and Drawing – by Alex Rich and Jurg Leni
My Famicase (NES cartridge) Design Exhibition 2008

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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.