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Walter Allner noted designer, typographer and painter was trained at the Bauhaus under Josef Albers, Vasily Kandisky and Joost Schmidt.


design by Bruno Munari

For more than 40 years, Lou Dorfsman designed every aspect of the Columbia Broadcasting Company’s advertising and corporate identity.
Mr. Dorfsman’s work became a model for corporate communications, in the marketing discipline now called branding.
More at NYtimes.com


By Hans Schleger (of British transport fame) and Associates

Huge AD cover resource at The Sesquipedalist, and beatiful stuff all around.
Above, March 1958 Issue.

Wonderful retrospective on 40 years of work of one of the most influential designers of the twentieth century.
This is a must have.

Poster
W. H. Gispen (1890–1981)
Printers Kuhn and Zoon, Rotterdam
Netherlands 1928
Lithograph

Directed by Tamra Davis, the documentary features never-before seen footage of the prolific artist painting, talking about his art, and existing in the two years prior to his death in 1988. Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child was released on Feb 21st.

L’aventure des objets
from Catalogue 130-N: Modern Art: Rarities of the Avant-Garde
and more Ars Libri, Ltd.

Steel prototype of one of his 1969 sculptures.
Great article and more pictures on the New York Times

Beautiful post at things to look at
Above: Adamsez, 1957, Dewar-Mills Associates