T.O.P. (Thomas Ockerse) dwiggins one of the twentieth century’s

one of the twentieth century’s leading icons of graphic design in the Netherlands

Ryuichi Yamashiro created a poster for “Kunisada Chuji” by using an enlargement of a woman’s face drawn by Kiyoshi Awazu which became a great sensation among young designers at that time

Western-influenced abstraction

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T.O.P. (Thomas Ockerse) dwiggins one of the twentieth century’sJust one year after The AZ Book, young Thomas Ockerse published this one as a young professor at Indiana University. A magnificent showcase of concrete poetry and graphic puns. Presented as a portfolio of fifty loose leaves printed via silkscreen (by Ockerse) and offset, the whole is wildly imaginative. It comes with a five page introduction and checklist by the Danish poet and artist Vagn Steen. A fun and beautiful thing. RARE. Watch a flip through