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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)
• Books from 1960s Czechoslovakia: part 2
• Books from 1960s Czechoslovakia: part 1
• ‘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)
• 1960s & 1970s Scandinavian design logos: part 2
• 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