Graphis 61, 1955

Dimensions: 235 × 300 mm
Type of Work: International Design Magazine
Curatorial Note: Added by Curator on October 7, 2025
Related Items: IDEA (1955); Industrial Art News (1959); Graphic Design 02 (1960)

Graphis 61, published in 1955, is a document of the postwar international hybrid of graphic thought, featuring the works of the top visual artists and designers of Europe. Designed in Switzerland and sent to the four corners of the earth, Graphis was a key link between the West’s modernist ideals and the design culture that was starting up in Japan.

The paper vicar the magazine were the reflections of a curious cross-disciplinary approach—Prof. Enzo Carli’s “The Beginnings of Landscape Painting in Italy” and Giulia Veronesi’s “Munari,” besides Hans-Friedrich Geist’s “Illustrations for Children’s Books” and Prof. Dr. E. Imhof and Herbert Bayer’s “World Geo-Graphic Atlas.” The three artists, Luciano Baldessari, Paul Flora, and Olga Jevric, who wrote on Serbian Peasant Graves, met halfway between Europe and America to conference and design symposium art beyond borders.