Jay Jurisich » design http://www.jurisich.com/blog rambling words, fragments, disasters and situations Thu, 01 Jul 2010 22:31:28 +0000 en hourly 1 Treasure trove of modern Swiss + German book design http://www.jurisich.com/blog/2008/08/treasure-trove-of-modern-swiss-german-book-design/ http://www.jurisich.com/blog/2008/08/treasure-trove-of-modern-swiss-german-book-design/#comments Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:15:40 +0000 jay http://www.jurisich.com/blog/?p=239 470+ 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.

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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.

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