Thinking Bradbury Thompson. 03 25 1911
Bradbury Thompson was born on March 25 1911 in Jones Park, Riverside, Connecticut. Thompson graduated from Washburn University. He started his career by working at Capper Publication and he promoted to be an Art Director with Rogers-Lellog-Stillson. In 1938, Thompson was began to involve with Westvaco Inspirations. At this stage of his career he designed...
Thinking Anthon Beeke. 03 11 1940
Anthon Beeke was born on March 11, 1940 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He didn’t attend any school to learn graphic design instead he worked as an assistant for Ed Callahan in Germany, Jacques Richez in France and Jan Van Toorn in Netherlands. in 1963, he started up as an independent designer. He became a partner in...
Thinking Werner Jeker. 12 25 1944
“Black and white is the simplest and the most radical expression.” Werner Jeker was born on December 25, in 1944 in Mumliswill, the Swiss German Canton of soleure. He apprtenchip at Hugo Welti studio and obtained of Federal grants of Applied Arts in 1968. He became a freelancers as an illustrator, graphic designer and teacher...
Thinking Ladislav Sutnar. 11 09 1897
“Good visual design is serious in purpose. Its aim is not to attain popular success by going back to the nostalgia of the past, or by sinking to the infantile level of a mythical public taste. It aspires to uplift the public to an expert design level. To inspire improvement and progress demands that the...
Thinking Georg Staehelin. 09 13 1942
Georg Staehelin was born September 13, 1942 in Basel, Switzerland. He studied under Armin Hofmann and Emil Ruder at the Allegemeine Gewerbeschule Basel from 1958 to 1963 in the “Fachklasse fuer Grafik” (Basel School of Design, Class for Graphic Design). Armin Hofmann once said, “the intelligence and accurateness of his dealing with letter forms indicates...
Thinking 8vo 88.6
Softcover: 16 pages Publisher: Octavo (1988) Language: English Size: 210 x 297 mm / 8.26 x 11 inches
Thinking 8vo 88.5
Softcover: 16 pages Publisher: Octavo (1988) Language: English Size: 210 x 297 mm / 8.26 x 11 inches
Thinking 8vo 87.4
Softcover: 16 pages Publisher: Octavo (1987) Language: English Size: 210 x 297 mm / 8.26 x 11 inches
Thinking William Golden. 03 31 1911
William Golden was born on March 31, 1911 in New York, USA. He started his career as a lithographer and a photo-engraver in Los angles at the age of 17. He returned to New York in the early 1930′s and worked as promotional designer for Hearst;s Journal American. In 1937, he worked for the Columbia...
Thinking Typography Reflections 7
Title: toshiro mayuzumi’s Nirvana cymphony composed on the hand press and Softcover: 40 pages Publisher: helmut schmid design (2010) Language: English, Japanese Size: 250 x 255mm / 9.8 x 9.8 inches This is the latest of the typographic reflections published in 2010. This issue was focusing on conversation between Helmut Schmid, a typographer and Toshiro...
Thinking Walter Herdeg. 01 03 1908
Walter Herdeg was born on January 3rd 1908, in Zurich Switzerland. He wasn’t aware of graphic design as a profession. By chance, he heard the existence of graphic class at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Zürich. His family couldn’t afford to pay the tuition. because of his talent and the support of Ernst Keller, Herdeg received a...