Graphis magazine collection
Retro Graphis is a review of selected articles from my personnal collection of vintage Graphis magazine. I fell in love with these issues, when I started my first job as a graphic designer. The...
View ArticleWalter Herdeg (1908-1995)
Graphic designer, author, publisher. Studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Zurich under Ernst Keller and at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Berlin under O H W Hadank. From 1938 onwards:...
View ArticleComing soon & for sell
I’m shooting some books and magzines to add to designers-books during the next weeks (and months). This complete set is for sell, if you’re interested in or want some informations, please send an...
View ArticleGraphis 138-139 Special double issue : Japan (1968)
Every week I’m uploading pictures of some Graphis pages from my personnal collection. Some issues are for sell (see the end of the post) Though far removed from the cultural centres of the West, Japan...
View ArticleGraphis diagrams for cheap price
During my everyday quest for good old books, I found a nice copy of the 1981 Graphis Diagrams edition for a very low price: around 30 $ and not 250 as usual. As I don’t want to set a bookshop, I’m...
View ArticleGraphis 138-139: part 3 (1968)
Previously : part one Previously : part two Although advertising art gathered momentum later in japan than in West, its evolution has been swift. A ‘design boom’ is now under way, and hundreds of young...
View ArticleGraphis 138-139: part 4 (1968)
Previously : part one Previously : part two Previously : part three Pictures taken from various chapters: Japanese Advertising Photography Packaging design in japan Window display & Exhibition...
View ArticleGraphis 122, part 1 (1965)
Graphis 122 (1965) Cover by Victor Vasarely Size: 9 1/5″ x 11 7/10″ Pages: 96 Illustrations: 200 plus Contents 460 Victor Vasarely, Annet sur Marne: Victor Vasarely 472 Dr. Willy Rotzler, Zürich:...
View ArticleGraphis 122, part 2 (1965)
Graphis 122 (1965) Cover by Victor Vasarely Size: 9 1/5″ x 11 7/10″ Pages: 96 Illustrations: 200 plus Citroën Willy Rotzler The french motor company Citroën has repeatedly distinguished itself by...
View ArticleGraphis 122, part 3 (1965)
Graphis 122: part 2 Graphis 122: part 1 Graphis 122 (1965) Cover by Victor Vasarely Size: 9 1/5″ x 11 7/10″ Pages: 96 Illustrations: 200 plus Domenico Gnoli Manuel Gasser Domenico Gnoli was born in...
View ArticleVintage Graphis Flickr pool
3 month ago, John Red was creating a Vintage Graphis pool. This pre-1985 graphis pool collect any images from the Design, Advertising, Photography, Annual Reports, and Poster annuals, as well as any...
View ArticleGraphis 122, part 4 (1965)
Graphis 122: part 3 Graphis 122: part 2 Graphis 122: part 1 Four Young South American Artists Juan Carlos Distéfano, Sergio Jaguaribe, Roberto J. Pàez & Edgardo Miguel Giménez Article written by...
View ArticleArchigraphia – W. Herdeg (Graphis, 1978)
Archigraphia (Architectural & Environmental Graphics Architektur- und Signalisierungsgraphik la Création Graphique Appliquée à l’Architecture et à l’Environnement) Zurich: The Graphis Press, 1978...
View ArticleGraphis for cheap price
Hunting books is like a hobby, you can hunt something that don’t don’t necesseray need. Yesterday I was looking at a very interesting site and found a great bagain. A graphic desig studio based near...
View ArticleGraphis press (Herdeg era: 1944-1986)
1944: Creation by Dr. Walter Amstutz and Walter Herdeg, in Zurich, Switzerland. 1952: Amstutz & Herdeg published the first Graphis Annual. Herdeg is invited into AIGA. 1964: Following a split from...
View ArticleGraphis #26, advertising from the 1940’s
Graphis # 26 1948 Walter Herdeg & Walter Amstutz I’m back with a retrographis post. I know that it’s not a huge update but more contents is coming soon. Graphis as most of the profesionnal...
View ArticleGraphis 26 (1949)
CONTENTS Issue 26 102 Rouault: Miserere (Jacques Lassaigne) 112 Saul Steinberg. (Hans Naef) 122 London Transport. A Poster Tradition 128 The Church of Assy (F. Stahly) 134 Advertising Radio – Radio...
View ArticleGraphis Annual 1973-1974
GRAPHIS ANNUAL 73-74 1974 Graphis press, Zurich Editor: Walter Herdeg 232 pages 785 black & white and color examples First edition Text and captions in English, German and French Hardcover with...
View ArticleGraphis Annual 1959-1960
GRAPHIS ANNUAL 59-60 1960 Graphis press, Zurich Editor: Walter Herdeg 232 pages 830illustrations, 91 in color Publication No. 99. First edition Text and captions in English, German and French...
View ArticleGraphis Annual 1976-1977
GRAPHIS ANNUAL 76-77 1977 Graphis press, Zurich Editor: Walter Herdeg 236 pages 782 illustrations B&W and color examples First edition. Hardcover Book with Dust jacket Out-of-print Cover by...
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