How advertising and art manipulate body-image norms: a visual analysis with strategies for resistance. Images of bodies operate as powerful signifiers and as cultural determinants. Normative ideas of the body and beauty in particular shape images of...

How a new generation of graphic designers has created fresh visual paradigms for Iranian culture. In the last two decades, Iranian poster design has achieved widespread admiration and distinction for its innovative explorations of type and typograph...

As one of the most important poster designers of our time, Swiss graphic designer Niklaus Troxler (born 1947) has devoted himself primarily to jazz posters. In 1966 Troxler organized the first jazz concert in his hometown Willisau in the canton of Lu...

Since the beginning of the 20th century, poster campaigns have been a distinctive element of Swiss politics. This book reproduces posters from 1918 to the present.

The medium of the poster is distinguished by displaying messages combining images and text on a static, two-dimensional surface. Designers have, however, always toyed with extending the plane by adding a third dimension, whether spatial or temporal,...

Self-Promotion, the 30th edition of the Poster Collection series, features a compilation of posters the Museum fur Gestaltung in Zurich has commissioned over the years to promote their own exhibitions. Most of them were designed by Swiss designers, t...

"Jorg Hamburger – Georg Staehelin", the 29th edition of the "Poster Collection" series, is the first comprehensive tribute to the same-named Swiss designers. Connected by a passion for precision and detail, the two graduates of Allgemeine Gewerbeschu...