“Christmas” pioneers
In 1953, Producciones Editoriales del Nordeste, PEN, published in its collection Books of the Unicorn, a small text book by Joan Josep Tharrats in which he made a tour of Christmas greetings in the form of postcards, Christmas cards, keepsakes, etc. From the miniatures of the Books of Hours to illustrations by Saul Steinberg, José...
The press vignettes of Julián Santamaría
The vignettes created for magazines and newspapers in the 1970’s are an example of the many varied techniques of the designer Julián Santamaría. Santamaria used the forms, punctuation marks, ornamental frames and architectural symbols characteristic of dry transfer Letraset in collages, including his own photographs and illustrations to create a distinctive illustrative style with which...