category: design

Treasure trove of modern Swiss + German book design

470+ examples of Swiss and German modern book design: Book (design) stories from new typography to Swiss style modernist book design in Germany and Switzerland 1925–1965 (and beyond). Here’s a nice example, #51 in the collection, a Swiss survey of Die Neue Architektur by Alfred Roth, first published in 1948, cover design by Max Bill:

The New Architecture book jacket

View the full index of all titles in this collection.

Via Grain Edit.

Art and Architecture magazine

Arts & Architecture was a great arts/architecture/music/culture magazine published in the United States from 1945-1967. The magazine always had a great cover that reflected the art and design aesthetics fo the era, and now you can see images of all the covers together on the Arts & Architecture website. Here is a taste:

Arts & Architecute magazine covers

But that’s not all. You can click on every cover and download a PDF with excerpts from each issue.

Thanks to Grain Edit, a cool blog devoted to art and design from the same era as these magazines, for steering me to them.