Catalog Design Progress: Advancing Standards in Visual Communication (Sutnar, 1950) birthdayposter from 1950 on as a

from 1950 on as a teacher of graphic arts and in 1968 as head of the specialist class for graphic arts

We learned about printing and typography in a foundry that could cast just about any typeface we wanted—except those by Jan van Krimpen

one made us look twice

All are engaging and inventive

Abbott Miller

Catalog Design Progress: Advancing Standards in Visual Communication (Sutnar, 1950) birthdayposter from 1950 on as aLong before the internet and its vast stores of information in digital form, information in analog form needed to be organized so that it was legible and accessible. One designer who revolutionized the presentation of printed information was modernist pioneer Ladislav Sutnar. In 1950, Sutnar and architect K. Lonberg Holm published Catalog Design Progress, a guide to modernizing the design of printed materials through typographic simplicity,