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a black and white poster with the words die neue haas grotesk

Switzerland had survived WWII as a neutral country (along with Sweden) and a group of Swiss designers, who had been developing fresh, new, concepts of design from the 1930's on, now came onto the center stage of International graphic design. After the war, the Swiss Haas type foundry commisioned Max Miedinger to refine and upgraph their older Akzidenz Grotesk fonts and they marketed the revision as Neue Haas Grotesk ( San-serif type faces go by the name Grotesk in Europe). Around 1958 the…

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an orange and white book cover with the letter y on it

TYPOGRAPHY Emil Ruder Emil Ruder: TYPOGRAPHY: A Manual of Design. New York: Hastings House / Visual Communications Books, December 1982. Second printing. A very good or better oversized softcover b…

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some type of typograms with different colors and shapes on them, including the letters

Exhibition poster image comprised of five lines: Oskar/Schlemmer/Les Noces/Igor/Stravinsky; the words are made up of varying styles and scales of typographic letter forms in black, yellow, red, and blue (a color palette used by de Stijl or Bauhaus designers). The names of the featured artist and composer flank the central and larger title of the piece, like a particularly vibrant section of a written musical score. The "O" in each word is a solid circle (gold-yellow for "Oskar" at…

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two red, white and blue posters with the word's name written in it

This project revolves around a fictitious exhibition that could take place at Phaidon Gallery (Phaidon Press' gallery space). The concept for this exhibition is to showcase the works and lives of some of the most brilliant architects during the Brazilian Modernist movement. Bruta

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an advertisement for nagasaki in black and red, with the words on it

Nagasaki designed by Tom Muller / HelloMuller. Step back waffles and beer – there’s an altogether finer Belgian export whetting our appetitive. Tom Muller is a typographic legend. Having crafted some of the most iconic and contemporary pieces of type beauty for the likes of Wired mag, Lily Allen, Sony BMG Music, The Pet Shop Boys, Diesel and many more you will have visually gorged on, we’re in good company indeed to have Muller, a typographic maestro contributing to our exclusive faces. Tom…

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A typography presentation showcasing Rationell – a functional multipurpose corporate typeface, based on classic 1950's swiss rationalism, subtle tuned on a XIX century didonesque modernist structure, a contemporary interpretation with the eyes of the Latin idiosyncrasy.

Rationell is a functional multipurpose corporate typeface, based on classic 1950's swiss rationalism, subtle tuned on a XIX century didonesque modernist structure, a contemporary interpretation with the eyes of the Latin idiosyncrasy. #modernsans #sansserif #typography #typedesign

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