Until today the poster has lost nothing either of its actuality or its effective power. This book defines the nature of the poster and indicates the laws of designing which determine form, colour and composition. The four main lines of development, the illustrative, objective-informative, constructive and experimental poster, are demonstrated by means of 300 posters. The selection concentrates on those examples which, by the conception of their design, have influenced the stylistic development of the poster.

Geschichte des Plakates

Arts & Photography

Müller-Brockmann, Josef

Yoshikawa, Shizuko

Muller-Brockmann, Shizuko

History & Criticism

Phaidon Press

First U.S. edition. With text in English and German. Head of spine bumped. Scarce book. 176 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. 4to..

Grid Systems in Graphic Design: A Visual Communication Manual (English and German Edition)

Graphic Design

Hastings House Pub

In this book, Josef Muller-Brockmann intends to show the nature and meaning of the design elements of typography, drawing, photography in advertising. An important visual tool that will give open-minded designers a worthwhile survey of the fundamental problems of design. Also, for educators, it illustrates the practical results of a systematic method of teaching. A long-awaited re-release of the original edition.

The Graphic Designer and His Design Problems

Josef Müller-Brockmann’s graphics left a lasting mark on Swiss visual communication from the 1950s onward. His posters demonstrate how a sober, formally reduced language works best for conveying a universal, timeless message. Poster campaigns for longtime clients such as the Tonhalle concert hall in Zürich or the Automobile Club of Switzerland follow strict functional criteria–and yet exhibit a variety of design solutions and exciting, dynamic compositions.

Josef Muller-Brockmann: Poster Collection 25

Lars Müller Publishers

This illustrated essay traces the history of one of the leading exponents of “ Swiss Graphic Design ” in the 1950s and 1960s. Josef Müller-Brockmann’s posters have become world famous for their ability to convey information with great visual tension, a sense of drama, and an extreme economy of means. He created a body of work in which timeless principles of visual communication are inscribed. In addition to the posters, the image part presents examples of logotypes, appearances, and exhibitions as well as numerous lesser-known works in chronological order.

Josef Müller-Brockmann Suttl: Pioneer of Swiss Graphic Design

In 1980, the Swiss Federal Railways contracted one of their country’s leading graphic designers, Josef Müller-Brockmann (1914–96), to overhaul the design of their train stations’ signage, a project that resulted in a “visual information system” using intuitive pictograms to orient rail passengers, doing so largely without the aid of language. Müller-Brockmann's manual, expanded in 1992, is a complex, large-scale design project that met its users’ needs through its emphatic rationalism and consistency. This reprint in English translation―part of Lars Müller's XX The Century of Print series―makes the manual accessible for the first time to a broader public, and is one of the most significant projects by this legendary designer, well known for his posters and the influential magazine he founded, New Graphic Design (1958–65). This 200-page edition features a transparent PVC jacket, an interview with the contemporary Swiss graphic designer Peter Spalinger and text by curator Andres Janser.

Josef Müller-Brockmann: Design Manual for the Swiss Federal Railways (Fahrgastinformationssystem / Passenger Information System)

A grid system is a rigid framework that is supposed to help graphic designers in the meaningful, logical and consistent organization of information on a page. It is an established tool that is used by print and web designers to create well-structured, balanced designs. Rudimentary versions of grid systems existed since the medieval times, but a group of Swiss graphic designers, mostly inspired in ideas from typographical literature started building a more rigid and coherent system for page layout. The core of these ideas were first presented by Müller-Brockmann who helped to spread the knowledge about the grids thorough the world. This volume provides guidelines and rules for the function and use for grid systems from 8 to 32 grid fields which can be used for the most varied of projects, the three-dimensional grid being treated as well. Exact directions for using all of the grid systems possibe presented are given to the user, showing examples of working correctly on a conceptual level.

Grid systems in graphic design: A visual communication manual for graphic designers, typographers and three dimensional designers (German and English Edition)

Niggli

This book refers to the richness of visual communication by establishing a reference to the past through contemporary works and the most recent technical means.

A History of Visual Communication

Sistemas de retículas / Sistemas de grelhas: Un manual para diseñadores gráficos. Um manual para designers gráficos

Editorial GG, SL

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