Books from 1960s Czechoslovakia: part 1
20/05/11 – A selection of book covers, dust jackets, endpapers and title pages from Czechoslovakia circa 1960.
Sources and more information
Czechoslovak books collection on Flickr
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Oliver Tomas
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- The Canadian architect magazine covers (1966)
- The Canadian architect magazine covers (1965)
- The Canadian architect magazine covers (1964)
- Le Corbusier: The modulor (1954)
- Olympus OM-10 camera system packaging
- Imre Reiner: Grafika (1947)
- Interkosmos space program stamp series (1970)
- Karl Gerstner: Kompendium für Alphabeten (1972)
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- ‘Best builders of socialism’ matchbox label series (1960)
- Traditional Czechoslovak Easter egg designs (1963)
- Series of WWII Czechoslovak military heroes (1945)
- Richter’s Anchor Stone Building Set No. 8 (1894)
- Animal illustrations from the Prague Zoo (1963)
- Czechoslovak independence series by J. Schmidt (1945-7)
- Ladislav Sutnar: Build the Town building block set (1943)
- Czechoslovak folk architecture series (1961)
- Czechoslovak first day covers, a selection
- Alexander Girard: wooden dolls (1963)
- The Penguin Poets redesign by Jan Tschichold (1948)
- A selection of Chicago architectural postcards (1941)
- Czechoslovak aircraft stamp series by J. Lukavsky (1967)
- Jan Tschichold’s design for Penguin Scores 1949
- 1962 Czechoslovak Summer Spartakiad graphics
- The Penguin Classics redesign by Jan Tschichold 1949
- Jan Tschichold: Penguin composition rules (1947)
- Jan Tschichold’s redesign for Pelican Books 1949
- The Penguin Shakespeare redesign by Jan Tschichold 1949
- Max Bill: Form (1952)
- Design in Scandinavia exhibition catalogue (1954)
- Penguin’s horizontal grid design and Tschichold’s reforms
- More Czech National Spartakiad competition graphics
- Czech National Spartakiad sports competition graphics
- Kay Bojesen teak and limba wood monkey (1951)
- Czech stamp series designed by J. Lukavsky (1971-2)
- Czechoslovak Red Cross matchbox label series (1959)
- Aldo Rossi’s La conica e altre caffettiere (1984)
- Czech stamp series designed by Ivan Strnad (1972)
- Arizona desert postcards of the 1930s & 1940s
- Chicago architectural photographs, a selection
- Matchbox label set from Czechoslovakia (1968)
- Postcards from the Chicago World’s Fair (1933)
- 1960s & 1970s Scandinavian design logos: part 3
- Jens Quistgaard for Dansk Designs Denmark (1960)
- Karl Gerstner: The forms of colour (1986)
- C.P. Hornung: Handbook of designs and devices (1946)
- Eric Gill: An essay on typography (1936)
- Vision + value series edited by Gyorgy Kepes (1965-6)
- Laszlo Moholy-Nagy: The new vision (1938)
- A selection of graphics from Bauhaus publications
- A new history of Canada vol. 1 (1972)
- Tatra T600 Tatraplan 1946-7 streamlined automobile
- Le Corbusier: Towards a new architecture (1923)
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- 1960s & 1970s Scandinavian design logos: part 1
- Air made visible: a visual reader on Bruno Munari (2000)
- Falkland Lamp by Bruno Munari for Danese Milano
- Ladislav Sutnar: Design and paper, number 13 (1943)
- Ladislav Sutnar: Design and paper, number 19 (1945)
- Tapio Wirkkala for Iittala: 1968
- Karel Teige a typografie: asymetricka harmonie (2009)
- J. Hochuli: Detail in Typography
- Lambretta LD 150 Milan
- Tenugui: Designs & Patterns Japan
- Typographic Study: Square with 3×3 Grid [Ex. AH-25]
- Canadian Pacific Airlines (CP Air) Postcards
- Postcards from Expo 67 in Montreal
- Bruno Munari’s Design as art (1966)
- Excerpts from The Vignelli Canon
- Industrial British Columbia 1946
- Armin Hoffmann: Graphic design manual (1965)
- Czech and Japanese matchbox labels
- Ubu’s almanac: Alfred Jarry and the graphic arts
- Jens Quistgaard for Dansk International Designs
- Henning Koppel for Scanform Denmark
- Solair Chair: Fabiano & Panzini for IPL
- Henning Koppel for B & G
- Letter by Letter: An Alphabetical Miscellany
- Joe Colombo Boby Trolley
- The Elements of Typographic Style – Part 1
- John Maeda’s The Laws of Simplicity
- Futurist typography and the liberated text
- Grid systems in graphic design (1981)
- Emil Ruder’s Typographie
- Jan Tschichold’s The New Typography
- ‘Gacha’ capsule machine toys from Japan
- Calendar illustrations by Czech artist Josef Lada
- Design from Denmark/Scandinavia magazine (1967)
- Website Prototype (Textual Interface)
- Dieter Rams: Design is…
- Ladislav Sutnar: Designer and Artist
- Johannes Itten’s The Elements of Color