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Helveticards

admin — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 09:32:45 +0000

Designed with both the typophile and card player in mind, Helveticards are the beautiful, usable alternative to the traditional deck of cards. I haven’t come across these before but I’m glad I have. $10 seems pretty good.

Brockmann in Motion

admin — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 09:16:44 +0000

An educational project made during the International Typography Workshop in Czieszyn. The task was to put a print design masterpiece into motion.

Cristiana Couceiro

admin — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:44:34 +0000

Cristiana Couceiro is a freelance illustrator, working and living in Lisbon, Portugal.

Many of her digital collages seem to take inspiration from the likes of Josef Müller-Brockmann et al.

Via Eclectica

Josef Müller-Brockmann T-Shirts Available

admin — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:29:44 +0000

T-Shirt Society, Ltd. have released a range of t-shirts inspired by the designs of many famous graphic designers. One of their latest incarnations is this one for Josef Müller-Brockmann.

Pre-Postmodern Swiss Posters Exhibit

admin — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:56:30 +0000

Pictures from the Pre-Postmodern Swiss Posters exhibit held at San Jose State University from November 17-December 18, 2009. The posters are from the private collection of designer Aaron Marcus.

(Via AisleOne)

An animated homage to Josef Müller-Brockmann

admin — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:28:01 +0000

An oldie, but worth taking a look. A video remix of Josef Müller-Brockmann’s work by garythebutcher.

Grids from the Grave

admin — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:56:48 +0000

Elephi Pelephi - Flickr

It’s been dead quiet on the Grid News (sorry), as well as on the Müller-Brockmann front today. It got me thinking; What do famous Graphic Designers/Typographers/Illustrators headstones look like? Perhaps people could point me in the right direction if you know of one or have ever taken a photo of one. Do they take their design flair with them to the grave?

The Graphic Artist and His Design Problems Book

admin — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 14:09:50 +0000

If chapter titles like “Sans Serif as the expression of our age” interest you, this book is for you.

Penned and compiled by Brockmann himself, it is a cross between his History of Visual Communication book and the monograph Pioneer of Swiss Graphic design. He organizes his work and notable works of others into categories, and then writes short design theories (ie Uniformity in Advertising), based on the groupings.

This book does double duty also as a classic Swiss visual look book with hundreds of images, layouts, logo examples, and more, all placed in Brockmann’s impeccable grid design. 200 pages, 1 chapter in color.

Josef Müller-Bockwurst

admin — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 22:57:06 +0000

An interesting screen print of an adaptation Josef Müller-Brockmann’s Beethoven Concert Poster, from 1955.

Danish Artist, Philip Dam Roadley-Battin states, “Since he was born in Rapperswil, Switzerland, he must have enjoyed the Swiss Bockwurst – a fat meat sausage. It is often served on a bed of lettuce with onion, tomato, egg & dressing.

By joining the 2 very forces of Switzerland, the swiss bockwurst and the Josef Müller-Brockmann, you cannot avoid ending up with something very beautiful and unique…

Sausage Modernism.”

A conversation with Josef Müller-Brockmann

admin — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 22:40:42 +0000

In an interview with Eye Magazine shortly before his death in 1996, Josef Müller-Brockmann, when asked “What do you regard as your best work?”, by Yvonne Schwemer-Scheddin, replied “The white reverse sides of my posters!”.