Gottmer editions, 1950 — A few weeks ago my friend Stijn took me to Damplein, in Antwerpen Noord. One side of the square is backed by a sloped wall, the side of the exit of the high-speed railway tunnel towards Amsterdam. Behind some long banner-shaped curtains, people leave goods they have no use for, to… Continue reading Tatoed backbones
Category: graphic design
Réquichot
Galerie Daniel Cordier, 1964 — 2 colour offset on heavy board, folded in 8. Design uncredited. Réquichot 1929 —1961 rétrospectiveGalerie Daniel Cordier, Paris, 1964.Size closed 130 x 300 mm.
Claude Viseux
Galerie Daniel Cordier, 1960 — Offset on glossy paper, covered and interleaved with red glassine paper. Printed at Publigraphis, Paris. Designed by W. Hachler. Claude Viseux.Galerie Daniel Cordier, Paris, 1960.Size closed 130 x 300 mm.
Brassaï
Galerie Daniel Cordier, 1962 — White ink, silkscreened on glassine paper in a plain black cover. Design uncredited, probably W. Hachler, who did most invitations for the Paris gallery I could find from that period . Brassaï. graffiti. Galerie Daniel Cordier, Paris, 1962. Size closed 130 x 300 mm.
Carl Buchheister
Galerie Daniel Cordier, 1959 — Cover: letterpress and silkscreen on brown paper. 16 page booklet in letterpress, 12 reproductions in offset on glossy paper tipped in. Hand sewn. Designed and printed by Heinz Knauer, Typografisches Atelier und Druckerei, Frankfurt am Main, December 1959. Carl Buchheister. 1949 –1959. Zehn Jahre Malerei. Galerie Daniel Cordier, Frankfurt/M.… Continue reading Carl Buchheister
Galerie Daniel Cordier
sixties invitations. A pile of invitations to openings of art shows in Galerie Daniel Cordier, Paris and Frankfurt, between 1959 and 1963. Beautiful leaflets, the same size when closed, open differently: folded or bound, some stapled. Some are mere invitations, some are small catalogues. All make great use of different paper stock and the graphic… Continue reading Galerie Daniel Cordier
Fifties Flanders
Life lessons. As a young boy, I used to sneak up to my grandmother's attic, to disappear four hours between the magazines and books in that small room built under the much bigger roof. Books my father and his brothers must have read in the fifties, when art was to raise the worker and the… Continue reading Fifties Flanders
Annapurna
Club Français Part 5… A non-fiction book about the conquest of the Annapurna, an 8000 m high Himalayan peak. The scheme on the spread below lists the names of the team and their sherpas, silkscreened on the front and back covers. Maurice Herzog, Annapurna premier 8000 Club Français du Livre, December 1953 Designed by Jacques… Continue reading Annapurna
Some more covers…
… from le Club Français. June 1951 - Jean Giraudoux, Aventures de Jérôme Bardini February 1954 - John knittel, Thérèse Etienne August 1950 - Knut Hamsun, La Faim
Aragon – Les Beaux Quartiers
Club Français, part3 — Ah! The flow of these books. Aragon, Les beaux Quartiers Club Français du Livre, October 1950 Designed by Pierre Faucheux Composed in Cheltenham 10pt Printed by Paul Dupont, Paris Bound by Engel, Malakoff