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Although largely a collection of German-language tributes to book- and type designer Max Caflisch

It’s December of 1984 and Alvin Eisenman is writing with the latest Graphic Design Alumni directory from Yale

The calendar for an airline company for example

a little suppressed even

* positioning journalism as a wake-up call

The Whole Present System [Bram de Does] SureyStones Although largely a collection ofPublished in 1972 by David R. Godine, this dramatic photogravure broadside features a poignant Civil War photograph of Union soldiers resting beneath a tree. Positioned below the image is an elegant block of text lettered by 38 year old Bram de Does. That aforementioned text is from a footnote from Walt Whitmans 1871 Democratic Vistas, in which he fiercely condemns the rigid military hierarchy of the United States army and navy as a "monstrous exotic"