Title, Year
Artrosil B1, 1949
Cover Designer
Franco Grignani (1908-1999)
Client
Dompé Pharmaceutical, Italy
Size (h x w), Language
12.75 x 9", Italian
Medical advertisement for Dompé Pharmaceutical (Milan) easily identifiable by repeating ampule silhouettes as background image. “I have attempted to escape from the geometrical and typographical straightjacket imposed by Swiss constructivism and the influence of Mondrian” (The Work of Franco Grignani by Alan Bartram, Typographica 1, June 1960).
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