typography
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The classic finely printed, richly illustrated monograph on the Danish graphic design pioneer Knud Valdemar Engelhardt (1882–1931) “Denmark’s first industrial designer. Influenced by the architect Thorvald Bindesbøll, Engelhardt understood that successful production depended on both an industrial and a graphical approach. The font he developed for Gentofte’s road signs is sensitive and personal but also eminently readable. From 1908 to 1910, he designed electric trams for Copenhagen with intricate detail. The vehicles were functional and cleanable in all weathers, and were well manufactured. Although Engelhardt was an architect, he also exerted a considerable influence on the development of Danish billboards and graphic design traditions. More than anyone else, Engelhardt paved the way for a Danish approach to design and industrial production
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Reprint of the First UK edition of Malerei, Fotografie, Film originally appeared as Volume 8 in the Bauhausbücher series in 1925 (second edition 1927)
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THOMMESEN, Anna. – Dorthe Aagesen og Anders Gaardboe Jensen. – Lynne Cooke, Mark Mussari, Karen Vad, Ane Preisler Skovgaard og Philip Pihl: . Anna Thommesen – Vævninger. Strandberg Publishing, 2026. Lille hardcover. 240 sider. Nyt eksemplar / uåbnet
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By Robin Boyd. In the Kenzo Tange volume in the Makers of Contemporary Architecture Series. London, Prentice Hall simultaneously George Braziller, New York, NY, 1962. Tall 8vo in publishers halfcloth hardcover with well preserved dustjacket. 127, 1 pp. Illustrated bw. Near fine / fine clean copy First edition. Outsstanding book…
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Eiler Rasmussens beautiful book with his drawings from China – this copy from the collection of Jorn Utzon and with his handwritten name to free front endpaper dated 41. Steen Eiler Rasmussen, an important architect himself, was Utzon’s teacher at the Architecture school.
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Meggs, Philip B. & Alston W . Purvis: Meggs’ History of Graphic Design [Hardcover]. John Wiley & Sons, (2012). Large heavy hardcover, w jacket. 603 pasges, richly illustrated. Fine clean, unused copy
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175,00 kr.
bogstave-billede. Den grafiske Højskole, København 1962. Stor 8vo i hardcover. (32) pp. Gennemillustreret 1. edition
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The first English translation, by Ruari McLean, of a modern typography classic originally published in Switzerland in 1935
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Copenhague: Forening for Boghaandvaerk, 1951. Folio. Publisher’s hardcover. 24 pp and 58 plates. Jacket worn – inside clean and overall very good
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345,00 kr.
Excellent book on Lajos Kassak and the birth of Modernism and the avant-garde in Hungary in the 20’s. Kassak was the central figure in Budapest of the period, a multitalented writer, graphic artist and designer. For several years he edited the seminal Hungarian literary and fine arts journal Ma, a key forum for the avant-garde, and went on to produce a large body of work that extended into the 60’s, influencing multiple generations of Hungarian artists. This book profiles his work in graphic design, poster art, book design, and typography
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“Avant-garde artists of the 1920s and 1930s discovered a new role, that of designers for the printing industry–what is today known as graphic design. As illustrated by the numerous stunning, high quality, color reproductions in this book, designers stripped away printers’ ornaments and drawn illustrations; they no longer created captions on the page; and they brought in abstract, geometrical forms, photographs, plain typefaces and simple lettering, white space, and asymmetrical layouts. Included are examples of posters, prints, book designs, and political and commercial ephemera. Avant-Garde Graphics focuses on the designs of many of the leading practitioners of the Modernist movement working between 1918 and 1934–from the Dutch members of the De Stijl and the German Bauhaus to the Constructivists of the USSR and central Europe. Artists include Jean Arp, Herbert Bayer, Theo van Doesburg, El Lissitzky, Liubov Popova, Vladimir and Georgii Stenberg, Solomon Telingater and others.”
