Poster Collection 10: Michael Engelmann
Edited by the Museum of Design Zurich / Lars Müller Publishers
Straightforward photography, a restrained colour scheme, simple texts set in a functional typeface: these are the formal elements the German Graphic Designer Michael Engelmann drew on to create an unmistakable pictorial language for his posters. He came to advertising self-taught, with a background in American advertising practice. Read more >>
16.5 × 24 cm, 96 pages, 80 illustrations, softcover (2004)
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Poster Collection 12: Catherine Zask
Edited by the Museum of Design Zurich / Lars Müller Publishers
One of the most innovative French graphic designers, Catherine Zask’s posters have the elegance and coherence of DNA, and indeed she works with the building blocks of writing and communication letters. Here, in Poster Collection 12, the series from the Museum of Design Zürich, she allows the letters free reign to be musical, to trigger echoes, to store images, but never unmoors them from their task of providing written communication in an appropriate and comprehensible form. Read more >>
16.5 x 24 cm, 64 pages, 54 illustrations, softcover (2005)
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Poster Collection 7: Armin Hoffmann
Edited by the Museum of Design Zurich / Lars Müller Publishers
Poster Collection 07 gathers the most important posters of Armin Hofmann, and shows them—corresponding to his fundamental importance as a graphic design teacher—in a context with works from his most famous students, who continued his methods. After completing an apprenticeship in lithography, Armin Hofmann (born 1920) began teaching his own typographic principles at the Basel School of Design in 1947. He and his colleagues who contributed to the development of Swiss international Style, advocated a belief in absolute and universal graphic expression. Hofmann has also taught at Yale and the Philadelphia Museum School of the Arts. Read more >>
16.5 x 24 cm, 80 pages, 110 illustrations, softcover (2003)
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Poster Collection 5: Typotektur
Edited by the Museum of Design Zurich / Lars Müller Publishers
“Typotecture” takes a look at posters from various countries and periods, which share a special feature of typography: the tendency to break out of the two-dimensional space of lettering and establish hybrid links with architecture. Letters, words, or entire sentences form architectural figures, which can be read both as pictures and as words. The playful handling of typography has led to an exhilarating wealth of variations in the history of poster art. Read more >>
16.5 x 24 cm, 64 pages, 85 illustrations, softcover (2003)
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Poster Collection 13: Typo China
Edited by the Museum of Design Zurich / Lars Müller Publishers
The publication brings together contemporary posters from China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan that demonstrate that a new interest in the poster has been awakened as a result of the economic opening of the mainland. The commercial use of the poster in China hardly differs at all from Western standards. Yet with growing self-confidence, designers are also gaining attention with innovative posters on cultural and nonprofit themes. Read more >>
16.5 × 24 cm, 64 pages, 78 illustrations, softcover (2006)
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Poster Collection 14: Zürich – Milano
Edited by the Museum of Design Zurich / Lars Müller Publishers
This publication sheds light on the era between 1948 and 1970, when the arrival at Milano Centrale train station not only represented a turning point in the lives of certain young Swiss graphic artists but also became a decisive moment for the history of design. Being cosmopolitan had its difficulties, but it richly rewarded many recent graduates of the famous Kunstgewerbeschule Zürich. Supplied with a type of education that was not available in Italy at the time, Swiss graphic artists encountered an optimistic and undogmatic attitude that was inspiring and new. Italy’s path to a widely admired form of visual communication was marked by a profound trans-discipline dialogue and earned Milan a reputation as a city for which it was worth leaving behind one’s homeland. Read more >>
16.5 × 24 cm, 96 pages, 117 illustrations, softcover (2006)
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