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Richard Davies double-page spread designed by Chris Ashworth, Ray Gun 55. Published in April 1998. Photography by Chris Buck. Story by Mike McGonigal designreviewed.com/ray-gun-c…

Shell French Cartoguides, 1971, by Daniel Hamot designreviewed.com/illustrat…

Systematic Surface Design – Partial Forms Find out more designreviewed.com/systemati…

Graphis 203, 1979/80. Cover design by Kiyoshi Awazu designreviewed.com/artefacts…

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Experiments in 'Time Distance Map' Diagram Collection by Kohei Sugiura, Kajima Publishing, 2014 designreviewed.com/artefacts…

Ray Gun after Carson. The Work of Chris Ashworth designreviewed.com/ray-gun-c…

Novum Gebrauchsgraphik, 3, 1976. Cover design by Paolo Guidotti/Italo Lupi designreviewed.com/artefacts…

I’ve just translated a 1919 article from Das Plakat on Hanns Thaddäus Hoyer, a lettering artist who trained with Koch, Ehmcke and Behrens but rarely gets a mention. Some beautiful greetings cards, publisher’s marks and wartime lettering exercises in there. Full translation here: designreviewed.com/hanns-tha…

Wassily #Kandinsky - On the #Dances of #Palucca, 1926. Discover more design history by subscribing to my newsletter designreviewed.com/newslette…

Architectural Design, October 1958 cover by #TheoCrosby Fantasy on the idea of #mobility, the subject of the magazine's opinion discussed in this issue, as well as an article by Alison and Peter Smithson’s on analysing #traffic problems in cities. designreviewed.com/designer/…

Graphik – Werbung + Formgebung, 08, 1954. Cover illustration by Hans Schweiss designreviewed.com/artefacts… #hansschweiss #illustration

The British and Empire Confectioner, Baker and Restaurateur, Vol 68 (No 01), No 915, 1939 designreviewed.com/artefacts…

Das Plakat, Vol 10, No. 04, 1919. Cover design by Hanns Thaddäus Hoyer designreviewed.com/artefacts…

Das Plakat, Vol 12, No. 06, 1921. Cover design by Walter Kampmann designreviewed.com/artefacts…

Industrial advertising designed by Glaser and Hoch Werbung. Scanned from Graphik – Werbung + Formgebung, 05, 1956 designreviewed.com/artefacts…

1950s advertising work designed by Hiroshi Ohchi. Scanned from Graphik – Werbung + Formgebung, 02, 1956 designreviewed.com/hiroshi-o…

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Video game advertisements scanned from Idea 288, 2001-09: Visions of Video Games designreviewed.com/artefacts…