Won a stash of Japanese ephemera from the 1920s and 1930s on eBay. Looking forward to receiving these. I currently have nothing like this in the archive.
Some of the fantastic spreads I have scanned from Omnibus, a Braunschweig student newspaper.
The collection includes issues 6-13 from 1962-1966, The elaborate graphic design by Manfred Bremeier and Udo Zisowsky, among others.
After scanning and uploading over 4,268 design artefacts I have collected to
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I do get the occasional 'Why am I doing this?' moment. But I feel I have gone too far to quit now. View a random selection at
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Design. The Council of Industrial Design magazine. Issues from 1955 and 1958. A few missing on this run. But these covers are fantastic, that mid century modern colour palette, overlays and mix of photography really does stand the test of time!
Doing a check on my site and realised I, have now added 2,466 magazine covers, still stacks to scan and add.
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has definitely been a beasty project so far:
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I was looking through a Kinetic Art and Op Art catalogue and discovered the art of Auguste Herbin. Here is some of his painting from the 1950s and 1960s. He co-founded the groups Abstraction-Création and Salon des Réalités Nouvelles which promoted non-figurative abstract art.
My ambition is to publish two successful books on the history of Japanese graphic design and a century of graphic design magazines, using my own archive materials (currently 4,000) collected from over ten years of sourcing, learning, and archiving.
A long way off, but wanted to share a little personal project I'm working on. Cataloguing the archive and creating a database of design history from it.
There will be search functions and collated sets of items coming soon, as well as an updated shop.
I soon hope to start planning my first small-run, publication. My initial ideas include Mid Century Graphic Design Magazines from Japan or 100 Magazines - A Century of Graphic Design.
Any advice on getting started?
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My slides from this weeks
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talk on Collecting, Curating and Creating. Delving into my archive and explaining reasons why knowing your history is important.
Sad to hear about Ken Garland passing away, I always loved his work and his ethos. I spend the evening putting together a little virtual shrine with links to reading, articles from around the web and artefacts from my archive designed by Ken:
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Design can bring beauty, organisation and a sense of calmness, it can bring destruction, hatred and spread propaganda. Supermarkets are the design museums of the present and the museums are the documentation of the past.
I started collecting Cinderella Stamps. (In philately, a cinderella stamp is "virtually anything resembling a postage stamp, but not issued for postal purposes by a government postal administration".) These small but striking pieces of ephemera all date within the 1960s.
Japanese woodblock prints by Iwao Akiyama, an artist known for distinctive prints of owls and cats. Akiyama was born in 1921 in Takeda, Ōita Prefecture and studied drawing under the direction of a Buddhist monk during his childhood.
I also discovered the work of Juraj Deák when researching some of the designers for Typografia magazine. Here is some of the inspirational work from the 1960s.