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We have lost another brilliant graphic designer, who was one of the pioneers of the International Typographic Style. Swiss graphic designer Ruedi Rüegg passed away on October 14th, 2011. Here’s a little note written by his good friend, Fritz Gottschalk.
He was a partner at the legendary agency, Müller-Brockmann & Co., and he published one of my favorite ABC Verlag books, Basic Typography.
His work still has a huge influence on me, and I will always cherish it.
He will be missed. RIP.
New Zealand based studio, The International Office, has updated their site with some new work.
I’ve been a fan of Designunit’s work for a while now. This Denmark based agency was founded by Majbritt and Jesper Johansen and focuses on fashion brands. I love their typography drive aesthetic.
To the left is the paste up of a 1962 poster titled “Musikinstrumente”, by Richard Paul Lohse. Below is the final poster design. It’s incredible what designers had to do to layout a design back in those days when computers weren’t standard. Definitely a certain level of craft was involved that is probably now lost.
Some nice work by Geneva based studio, Schaffter Sahli.
IL Magazine, the monthly news magazine of Italian financial newspaper, Il Sole 24 ORE, sports a fresh new design and layout by Francesco Franchi. Really nice work, and I love the cover.
The new ‘IL’ lettering was created by Christian Schwartz and all the typefaces used in the magazine are designed by Kris Sowersby.
Francesco also informed me that the grid that he used for the redesign was designed by Karl Gerstner. Very sweet.
You can see a Flickr set of the some of the spreads. Great work.