AGI ANNALS
FHK Henrion [Editor]
FHK Henrion [Editor]: AGI ANNALS. Zürich: Alliance Graphique Internationale, June 1989. First edition. Text in English. Quarto. Silver foil stamped black cloth. Photo illustrated endpapers. Printed dust jacket. 304 pp. Fully illustrated in color and black and white with work from 350 designers from 24 countries. Glossy white jacket faintly worn along top edge, otherwise a fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Rare.
9.25 x 12.25 hardcover book with 304 pages devoted to the history of the Alliance Graphique Internationale and the work of its’ international membership from 1952 to 1987. An exceptional contemporary Graphic Design reference volume beautifully produced by the Dai Nippon Printing Company.
- From The President
- Preface
- Introduction
- The 50s
- The 50s Summary
- The 50s AGI Events
- The 50s AGI Members’ Work
- The 60s
- The 60s Summary
- The 60s AGI Events
- The 60s AGI Members’ Work
- The 70s
- The 70s Summary
- The 70s AGI Events
- The 70s AGI Members’ Work
- The 80s
- The 80s Summary
- The 80s AGI Events
- The 80s AGI Members’ Work
- Conclusion
- AGI Network
- AGI Analysis
- AGI Annals
- AGI Members
- Index
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
Includes work samples by and biographical information on Ray and Charles Eames, Alexander Jordan, Alain Le Quernec, Uwe Loesch, Shin Matsunaga, Peter Brookes, Masuteru Aoba, Koichi Sato, Helmut Schmid, Hans-Georg Pospischil, Gerald Scarfe, Edo Smitshuijzen, Christof Gassner, Pierre Bernard, Katsumi Asaba, B. Martin Pedersen, Roland Aeschlimann, Richard Saul Wurman, Michael Vanderbyl, Katherine McCoy, Jean Robert, Pierluigi Cerri, Makoto Nakamura, Deborah Sussman, April Greiman, Mitsuo Katsui, Muriel Cooper, Yarom Vardimon, Edgar Reinhard, Zdenek Ziegler, Takenobu Igarashi, Roger Pfund, Mimmo Castellano, Josef Flejsar, Jaroslav Sůra, Jan Rajlich, Italo Lupi, Dan Jonsson, Bruce Blackburn, Armando P. Milani, Woody T. Pirtle, Tomás Gonda, Steff Geissbuhler, Pierre Mendell, Hermann Zapf, Henry Steiner, Ephraim E. (Ed) Benguiat, Adrian Frutiger, Shigeo Fukuda, Michael Peters, Bruno Monguzzi, Barrie Tucker, Anthon Beeke, R.D.E. (Ootje) Oxenaar, Matthew Carter, Marte Röling, Kenneth W. Cato, Jelle Van der Toorn Vrijthoff, Ivan Chermayeff, Gert Dumbar, Garry W. Emery, Egidio Bonfante, Dick Bruna, Ben Bos, Arthur Paul, Alan Peckolick, Theo Dimson, Mortezsa Momayez, Jeanette Collins, Willy Fleckhaus, Rolf Müller, Michael Rand, Margaret Calvert, Jock Kinneir, Jean Widmer, Isolde Monson-Baumgart, Holger Matthies, Heinz Waibl, Giulio Cittato, Frieder Grindler, David Hillman, Bruno Oldani, Tom Geismar, Silvio Coppola, Seymour Chwast, R.O. Blechman, Roberto Sambonet, Pieter Brattinga, Milton Glaser, Les Mason, Kurt Weidemann, Jukka Veistola, John McConnell, James Cross, Harry Peccinotti, Fritz Gottschalk, Tomoko Miho, Stuart Ash, Siegfried Odermatt, Samuel N. Antupit, Rolf P. Harder, Richard Danne, Peter Megert, Peter Bradford, Paul Brooks Davis, Mel Calman, Maciej Urbaniec, Louis Danziger, Kyösti Varis, Jan Mlodozeniec, Jacqueline Casey, Hans Peter Hoch, Gunter Rambow, Gilles Fiszman, Fred Troller, Félix Beltrán, Ernst Roch, Burton Kramer, Bruno K. Wiese, Arnold Schwartzman, Allan Robb Fleming, Richard Hess, Jan Van Toorn, Hermann M. Eggmann, Emanuele Luzzati, David Gentleman, Allen Hurlburt, Ruedi Rüegg, Peter Andermatt, Walter Ballmer, Mervyn Kurlansky, Gérard Miedinger, Franco Bassi, Dan Reisinger, Stanislav Kovàr, Paul Hogarth, Louis Silverstein, Gordon Andrews, Ursula Hiestand, Ruedi Külling, Michalis Katzourakis, K. Domenic Geissbühler, Josef Svoboda, Frederick Vincent Carabott, Ernst Hiestand, Arnold Saks, Tomàs Vellvé, Pino Tovaglia, Norman Ives, Niels Hartmann, Max Schmid, Mark Zeugin, John Massey, Hugo Wetli, Hermann Bongard, Hans Neuburg, Giulio Confalonieri, Georges Calame, Armin Hofmann, Waldemar Świerzy, Theo Crosby, Tadashi Ohashi, Ryuichi Yamashiro, Roman Cieslewicz, Martti Mykkänen, Kiyoshi Awazu, Kenji Itoh, Kazumasa Nagai, Jurriaan Schrofer, Josef Mrosczak, Ikko Tanaka, Hiromu Hara, Hermann Rastorfer, Herbert Spencer, Henry Wolf, Germano Facetti, Franciszek Starowieyski, Colin Forbes, Bob Noorda, Benno Wissing, Antonio Morillas i Verdura, Alan G. Fletcher, Massimo Vignelli, Hans Fabigan, George Tscherny, Karl Oskar Blase, Josep Pla-Narbona, Heinz Edelmann, Günther Kieser, Georg Schmid, Erik Nitsche, Rudolph de Harak, Walter Allner, Takashi Kono, Hans Hillmann, Herb Lubalin, Gene Federico, Saul Bass, Max Huber, Herbert W. Kapitzki, Hans Hartmann, Wim Crouwel, Shichiro Imatake, Rémy Peignot, Jean David, Henryk Tomaszewski, Celestino Piatti, Alois Carigiet, Walter Breker, Ronald Searle, Riccardo Manzi, Kurt Wirth, Julian Palka, Feliks Topolski, Edward Bawden, Anton Stankowski, Yusaku Kamekura, Will Burtin, Paul Rand, Paul Colin, O.H.W. Hadank, Mattew Leibowitz, Lou Dorfsman, Leo Lionni, Hiroshi Ohchi, Herbert Matter, George Giusti, Cipe Pineles Burtin, Charles Loupot, Bradbury Thompson, A.M. Cassandre, Alvin Lustig, Albe Steiner, Lester Beall, Joseph Binder, Herbert Bayer, Helmut Lortz, Francis Bernard, Wim Brusse, Willem JHB Sandberg, Walter Herdeg, Tom Eckersley, Stig Lindberg, Roger Excoffon, Raymond Savignac, Pierre Gauchat, Pierre Boucher, Per Beckman, Pat Keely, Olle Eksell, Milner Connorton Gray, Martin Gavler, Marcel Jacno, Josef Müller-Brockmann, Jean Carlu, Jan Lewitt, Jacques Richez, Jacques Dubois, Hermann Eidenbenz, Herbert Leupin, Heiri Steiner, Hans Schleger, Giovanni Pintori, George Him, Franco Grignani, FHK Henrion, Eric Lancaster, Erberto Carboni, Edward McKnight Kauffer, Dick Elffers, Bruno Munari, Bernard Villemot, Barnett Freedman, Ashley Havinden, Arne Ungermann, André François, Anders Beckman, Aage Sikker Hansen, Jean Picart Le Doux, Jean Colin, Jacques Nathan Garamond, Fritz Bühler, and Donald Brun.
For those of you unfamiliar with the AGI, here is how they describe themselves and their mission on their website: "The AGI [Alliance Graphique Internationale] unites the world’s leading graphics designers and artists in a professional club of common interest and achievement. It is an élite club. Its members have been collectively responsible for the identity design of most of the world's top corporations and institutions as well as for countless examples of globally known packaging, publications, illustration and posters."
"The AGI holds exhibitions of members work which are highly influential in disseminating new forms, techniques and ideas. There is a book publishing programme based on the thoughts and works of members. There are contacts with colleges and schools, government bodies and commercial institutes, all aimed at promoting graphic design and visual literacy."
"In the 1940s, commercial artists, mural makers, typographers, printmakers, art directors, illustrators and poster designers increasingly realised their common bonds, and the modern profession of graphic design began to be defined. In 1951, five graphic artists two Swiss and three French decided to formalise their relationship into some sort of association. Their idea was simply to share common interests and friendships across national and cultural borders. "
"It was a notion that soon attracted leading exponents of the graphic arts from elsewhere in Europe and in the USA. In 1952 the Alliance Graphique Internationale was incorporated in Paris with 65 members from 10 countries. The first AGI exhibition was held in Paris in 1955 and in 1969 the headquarters moved from Paris to Zurich. Student seminars were introduced in 1979 and the first Young Professional AGI Congress was held in London in 1994."
"Membership of the AGI requires reputation and achievement of the highest order and commitment to the processes of visual learning and perception, unfettered by cultural differences. The AGI remains dedicated to the universal aspect of graphic design as a means of communication and information, and its ideals remain relevant to the new world of visual literacy which its members have helped to bring about. "