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Design Inspiration: European Graphic Design from 1950-1970

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At 5:23 pm on May 30th, 2008 , Stephen M. Walker II wrote:

Great post! It’s always nice to see pre-Illustrator design work.

At 12:16 pm on June 2nd, 2008 , Jon Tan wrote:

Good and interesting selection. Armin Hoffmann’s thoughts on poster design from a lecture in 1986 might make interesting reading for anyone intrigued by his black and white keys design.

At 5:43 pm on June 20th, 2008 , milkshake wrote:

Nice selection.
It’s amazing some of it still looks fresh today. Muller-Brockman is always great. Brutal grids FTW!

At 1:48 pm on July 17th, 2008 , http://bestflashwebsites.blogspot.com wrote:

Most of these posters are 50 years old, and they would look too modern for some of my clients!!

At 3:45 pm on July 26th, 2008 , Matthew Hale wrote:

Very nice post, and nice site. I stumbled onto devkick looking for a jquery gallery tool, and now you’re bookmarked. Yay!

At 5:21 am on August 8th, 2008 , Addison Kowalski wrote:

This is what I’m always telling my other designer friends about. Finally a great collection of art. Amazing.

At 6:47 pm on August 8th, 2008 , Justin Miller wrote:

My favorite era. It’s great seeing an article on this powerful direction in design. Utilizing this style can really make for a clean and impacting piece of artwork.

At 3:40 pm on August 12th, 2008 , Anthony Morreale wrote:

This is absolutely incredible. Thanks a lot for digging this up (how did you?).

At 12:21 am on August 27th, 2008 , The Ad Mad wrote:

wow, really inspiring!

Love how subtle some of these are

http://www.theadmad.com

At 6:32 pm on August 27th, 2008 , Modernism, cubism, bauhaus, which one of these is not like the others...? wrote:

> It’s amazing some of it still looks fresh today.

It looks fresh because people are -still- copying it. When will this design style give up and die???? Modernism is so far “post” at this point, that it’s a zombie. Every art school ever teaches this style because it’s so “historically important” but that doesn’t mean we need to bring it back! Even as “inspiration”. This style had its place. Its place was the 1970s. Please for the love of God, leave it there.

At 2:12 am on September 9th, 2008 , Jeff wrote:

Hey,
Great stuff here. I really dig this style and I think there are great uses for it today. The Wohnbedarf is inspiring.

Thanks!

At 6:51 am on September 21st, 2008 , Shane wrote:

Whenever needing inspiration I know where to go. Great collection. Cheers!

At 7:21 pm on September 24th, 2008 , Davo wrote:

Great compilation… inspiring!

PS: Consider to get Akismet for the comment spam situation that you have here.

D.

At 3:14 pm on October 6th, 2008 , Gints wrote:

“Jauna Gaita” is latvian magazine…

At 11:03 am on January 26th, 2009 , G3 Creative Scotland wrote:

One of my very favourite era’s of graphic design.

Marianne

At 5:12 pm on January 27th, 2009 , Jason wrote:

Great Posters!

Thanks for the lunch-break inspiration.

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At 3:31 am on April 17th, 2009 , Hendry wrote:

Dear All,

My name is Hendry Soetardjo Nanuru. I am a 4th year student in Visual Communication Design at Institut Teknologi Harapan Bangsa, Bandung - Indonesia. Currently I am writing my thesis to finish my study in Visual Communication Design.

I am really interested in Dutch graphic design. The simple form, great concepts, free expression and exploration, make Dutch design good. So I took Dutch design as the topic of my thesis.

The topic of my thesis is about the use of “Colors in Dutch Design”.

I would like to know why many Dutch designers are really confident to use colours in their design? Maybe there are also other reasons that make Dutch designers are confident to use color, and what is the typical dutch design?

Would you like to advice me, which books are related with my topic? It is quite difficult for me to find information about a good books. I bought already some books; Dutch Graphic Design (Century of innovation), False Flat, and Design van de 20ste eeuw, but there is still not enough explanation about “colour in Dutch design”.

Anyone would help me? I appreciate your help, and thank you in advance.

Kind regards, Hendry

At 9:06 am on May 15th, 2009 , Youssef Sarhan wrote:

I love the last one by Marcel Wyss, always have

At 5:38 pm on May 23rd, 2009 , FrankBegbie wrote:

simply amazing. where can i buy poster prints? :)

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