Young guns on target?
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The Art Directors Club (ADC) exhibition The Young Guns featuring 100 young up-and-coming designers met with favorable reactions from most camps. Viewers were excited about the new direction displayed by the ADC by soliciting and judging work of this nature. They were also pleased with the importance of art direction today as demonstrated by the show. The appropriations of designs from the 1950s and 1960s, however, met with some negative reactions.
Publication Name: Graphis
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0017-3452
Year: 1997
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The ultimate triumph of Zdenek Ziegler
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Graphic designer Zdenek Ziegler was chosen to reclaim Poland's Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design once the country was free of the Communist regime. During the Prague Spring invasion and the velvet revolution, Ziegler sought to find out about other countries through learning their languages, reading books, and visiting. On the way to success he studied architure, worked in a film studio, and worked for the government as a graphic artist.
Publication Name: Graphis
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0017-3452
Year: 1998
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Yuri Surkov: born survivor
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Russian poster artist Yuri Surkov completes many of his designs on the computer. He has a minimalist quality established by the printing techniques available in the Soviet Union when he first started working in 1990. Surkov was art editor for Reklama magazine in 1991 which focused on advertising and graphics. Surkov became a freelance artist after the magazine went out of business.
Publication Name: Graphis
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0017-3452
Year: 1999
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