Josef Müller-Brockmann
Recent articles about Josef Müller-Brockmann
Killing joke at the expense of history
Issue 91, Spring 2016
Swissted’s typographic homages turn Modernist design history into hollow commodities for a new…
Unpredictable Swiss design
Issue 90, Summer 2015
The Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, created in 1875, was a pioneer institution…
We made this. Authentic, trilingual landmark
Issue 88, Summer 2014
In the early 1990s I produced a number of facsimile editions of publications…
Every word in its place
Issue 84, Autumn 2012
Reading Richard Hollis’s writings, one can’t help wondering how the esteemed…
The endless library at the end of print
Issue 27, Spring 1998
Does the current avalanche of glossy books constitute a genuine design history – or mere graphic…
Pre-postmodernity
Issue 50, Winter 2003
Does a small book from nearly 30 years ago encapsulate a ‘golden age’?
Reputations: Josef Müller-Brockmann
Issue 19, Winter 1995
‘I would advise young people to look at everything they encounter in a critical light … Then I…
Recent blog posts by Josef Müller-Brockmann
Books received #41
9 January 2020
Giovanni Anceschi, Shopfronts of London, Polish Design ABCs and a Swiss design manual by Müller-Brockmann
Here is a selection of four titles that caught our attention in recent months.
Remediation in Warsaw
4 April 2016
Posters aren’t dead, they’re just off the wall. David Crowley explains the thinking behind the forthcoming Warsaw International Poster Biennale
The Warsaw International Poster Biennale is 50 years old in June, writes David Crowley.
AK and A23D on press
18 September 2014
Two 21st-century letterpress projects breathe new life into this arcane, antiquated but much-loved method of mark-making
The LDF’s opening graphic weekend featured plenty of stimulating events and fascinating displays, with workshops, movies (Lost Highway), demonstrations, talks (Paula Scher, Irma Boom), David David’s Carousel Wall in the tunnel entrance, and Barber & Osgerby’s vertiginous Double Space – huge rotating mirrors – in the Raphael Gallery, writes John L Walters.