Swiss graphic design and typography magazine, subtitled “Zeitschrift für Schriftsatz, Gestaltung, Sprache, Druck und Weiterverarbeitung – Revue pour la composition, la conception graphique, la langue, l’impression et l’apprêt”. Herausgegeben von der Gewerkschaft Druck und Papier zur Förderung der Berufsbildung – Editée par le Syndicat du livre et du papier pour l’éducation professionnelle. The Typografische Monatsblätter was one of the most important journals to successfully disseminate the phenomenon of Swiss typography to an international audience, as well as spread the burgeoning ideas of the New Wave style. In existence for almost eighty years, the journal was a vital forum for concepts and discussion. Throughout these years, the Swiss typographic journal witnessed significant moments in the history of typography and graphic design
Weingart, Wolfgang. – Hostettler, Rudolf (ed.):. Typographische Monatsblätter (TM) Schweizer Graphische Mitteilungen no 6 / 7, 1973. St. Gallen: Zollikofer / Schweizerischer Typographenbund Bern 1973. 4to complete in original magazine wraps. (90) pages. Complete and clean and well preserved copy
Rare issue, with one of the classic Weingart experimental covers
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Spector Books 2020. 8vo in stiff wraps as issued. 192 pp. Text in English. With numerous black-white and colour illustrations. New copy. Published on the occasion of the exhibition cycle Space is the Place curated by Lukas Feireiss at BNKR – Current reflections on art and architecture. Texts by Franz…
The Discovery of the Square. Corraini Editions, 2019 (1976). 88 pp. Text in English. As new
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In 1949 Max Bill organized an exhibition of modern design called “die gute form” on behalf of the swiss werkbund (swb). in the years 1952-1968 the label “die gute form” was used by the swiss werkbund to promote “good design”. This is the original exhibition catalogue of a 1954 exhibition in zürich and winterthur
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Classic monograph on El Lissitzky “Beyond the Abstract Cabinet: Photography, Design, Collaboration”. Edited by Margarita Tupisyn. Fine copy.
