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Jean Widmer

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Jean Widmer

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Unpacking my Library • Modernist Graphic Design in Britain • McLaren + Pritchard • 2024

What a lovely book. Designed so as to perfectly express the ideas represented therein...Slightly amazed to see my name in the index, and to realise that I been a very small part of this great adventure; ongoing. Terrific.

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Posters make good presents... 2024

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Railway Poster • Switzerland • 1950s

Here is a post about a poster that combines a few of my interests...

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Things I Like • French Railway Poster • Boulogne • 1890s

This poster shows celebrates the opening of the casino in Boulogne. The Folkestone-Boulogne paddle-steamer is shown, and train services to Paris and Bruxelles are promoted.

I love the typographic style, and the seaweed-frond cartouche.

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You might think that a hundred year old poster has nothing to show us today...but, once you start looking, there are dazzle effects everywhere...a sort of everyday dazzle

Safety tape is a good one

Things I Like • WW1 Poster • CRW Nevinson • 1918

A Vorticist masterpiece, with great dazzle effects throughout.

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Unpacking my Library • USSR Advertising Poster 1917-1932 • Moscow • 1972

Riding the wave of interest in poster art during the late 1969s, this is probably the first significant published historical survey of USSR poster design from the heroic period, and with the focus you would expect from Moscow publishers.

A slightly old-fashioned landscape presentation that harks back to the Swiss books of the 1950s.

Lovely black end-papers too.

The back cover has a list of the designers and artists featured...that's good.

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Modern Poster • 8vo • Manchester • 1986

OMG...and I've got a great Tony Wilson story

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Vintage Patch • Hillerød • Denmark • c1930s

Just like a Fred Taylor poster

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Vintage Patch • Helsingør • Denmark/Sweden • c1930s

I love the simple graphic representation of history, architecture and big sky, all in flat colour - just like golden-age travel posters, but small.

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On the Wall • Edward McKnight Kauffer • Shell • 1930s

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Flowers of the Hills • Edward McKnight Kauffer • 1924

Lovely, and with a nod towards the flower watercolours of Charkes Rennie Mackintosh

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On the Wall...at last

Looking fabulous

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Things I Like • Vinyl LP Sleeve Design • Pushpin • CBS • 1967+

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Things I Like • Crocodile Tears • André François • Robert Delpire • France • 1967

Robert Delpire is a very important figure in the development, in France, of post-WW2 graphic sensibility - ranging across photography, advertising, moving image and publishing. Delpire is probably best known for his patronage of the great humanist photographers - Frank, Cartier-Bresson and Doisneau...Delpire wasd the publisher of Robert Frank's, The Americans (1958).

This is a book, published by Delpire, and illustrated by André François. The book is from a series called Actibom, and dates from 1967. The books were large format and with pages that could be coloured-in and re-arranged at will.

These books are part of a 1960s transformation in children's publishing and visual education. In the UK, Bob Gill's, Parade (1965) promoted the same sort of deconstructive and reconstructive engagement through play...I've posted before about Parade.

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Things I Like • RCA • 1963