Lustige Blätter Badenummer by Julius Klinger pis-kill the weight of a gaze

the weight of a gaze shaped by decades

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a particular Japanese sensibility that finds drama in the undramatic

and deep blue floats against an open sky with the kind of impossible calm that only vintage graphic art achieves

Lustige Blätter Badenummer by Julius Klinger pis-kill the weight of a gazeThis cover design for the Badenummer edition of Lustige Bltter a leading German satirical magazine shows Klinger at his most playful and precise. The composition uses the flat, high contrast language of early twentieth century commercial print: a limited palette, confident silhouettes, and a typographic rhythm that feels entirely contemporary. Klinger's ability to compress humour and elegance into a single image made him one of the most sought after