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Advertising (641)
Album Art (622)
Art/Illustration (199)
Booklets/Pamphlets (516)
Books (1652)
Branding/Identity (1788)
Ephemera (214)
Exhibition/Installation (188)
Film/Video (202)
Infographics/Maps (180)
Magazines (683)
Mobile (105)
Newspapers (128)
Object/Product (232)
Packaging (551)
Posters/Flyers (1183)
Signs (582)
Software (95)
Tablet/iPad (83)
Web (1335)

Abril Text (19)
Adelle (27)
Adelle Sans (19)
Adobe Caslon (33)
Akkurat (36)
Akzidenz-Grotesk (121)
Albertus (35)
Alright Sans (28)
Alternate Gothic (52)
ITC American Typewriter (23)
Antenna (34)
Antique Olive (36)
Aperçu (28)
Archer (27)
Arial (62)
Atlas Grotesk (19)
ITC Avant Garde Gothic (90)
Avenir (38)
Avenir Next (20)
Baskerville (32)
FF Bau (21)
Bello (24)
Benton Sans (66)
Bickham Script (23)
Block (25)
Bodoni (68)
Bookman (23)
Brandon Grotesque (53)
Brothers (26)
Bureau Grot (34)

Georgia (59)
Gill Kayo (58)
Gill Sans (109)
Gotham (121)
Graphik (38)
GT Sectra (23)
GT Walsheim (37)
Harbour (42)
Harriet Series (19)
Helvetica (284)
Helvetica Condensed (19)
Hobo (20)
Interstate (69)
Kabel (38)
Kabel Black (33)
Knockout (78)
LL Brown (38)
LL Circular (38)
Lydian (27)
Lyon (31)
FF Mark (21)
Mercury (21)
FF Meta (29)
FF Meta Serif (22)
Miller (37)
Minion (31)
Mistral (22)
Monotype Grotesque (34)
National (23)
Neue Helvetica (88)

Neutraface (54)
Neuzeit S (19)
News Gothic (56)
Open Sans (23)
Optima (36)
Palatino (20)
Plantin (21)
Platform (19)
Proxima Nova (60)
Replica (22)
Rockwell (19)
Sabon (23)
ITC Serif Gothic (50)
Skolar (20)
ITC Souvenir (31)
Suisse Int’l (32)
Telefon (26)
Tempo (23)
Tiempos (42)
Times (34)
Times New Roman (53)
Trade Gothic (86)
Tungsten (25)
unidentified typeface (149)
Univers (144)
Univers Ultra Condensed (21)
Venus (24)
Verlag (31)
Whitney (26)
Windsor (37)

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Tagged with “1920s”

Uses published in the 1920s that are in some way prototypical of that decade. For contemporary uses that emulate that era, see 1920s style.

Rollin ad: “A Coupe of Unmistakable Smartness”1925

Contributed by Florian Hardwig

Rollin ad: “A Coupe of Unmistakable Smartness”

Bayerische Bauindustrie A.-G. Notgeld coupons1923

G. Franz’sche Buchdruckerei

Contributed by Florian Hardwig

Bayerische Bauindustrie A.-G. Notgeld coupons

Buchdruckerei Weise & Co. invoice, 1929c. 1929

Buchdruckerei Weise & Co.

Contributed by Florian Hardwig

Buchdruckerei Weise & Co. invoice, 1929

Sponsor

“Fotografie der Gegenwart” leaflet1929

Walter Dexel

Contributed by Stéphane Darricau

“Fotografie der Gegenwart” leaflet

Gruhl, Magdeburg invoices, 1926 and 1927c. 1926

Max Schlutius

Contributed by Florian Hardwig

Gruhl, Magdeburg invoices, 1926 and 1927

Zagen, boren, vijlen – ad for Vickers House1923

Piet Zwart

Contributed by Tânia Raposo

<cite>Zagen, boren, vijlen</cite> – ad for Vickers House

Wotan (Sample unavailable)

Underwood typewriter ad1920

Photo(s) by “dr. shordzi” on Flickr.

Underwood typewriter ad

Franckhs Spieltruhe Ad1926

Photo(s) by “altpapiersammler” on Flickr.

<cite>Franckhs Spieltruhe</cite> Ad

Das Tage-Buch, by Leopold Schwarzschild (Ed.)1929

Photo(s) by “altpapiersammler” on Flickr.

<cite>Das Tage-Buch</cite>, by Leopold Schwarzschild (Ed.)

Erga-Stahlmöbel ad1929

unknown

Contributed by Stephen Coles

Erga-Stahlmöbel ad

Typographische Mitteilungen, vol. 17, No. 7, July 19201920

unknown

Contributed by Kirsten Solveig Schneider

<cite>Typographische Mitteilungen</cite>, vol. 17, No. 7, July 1920

Typographische Mitteilungen, vol. 17, No. 2, February 19201920

unknown

Contributed by Kirsten Solveig Schneider

Typographische Mitteilungen, vol. 17, No. 2, February 1920

Gebr. Müller Luckenwalde letterhead, 1930c. 1928

Contributed by Florian Hardwig

Gebr. Müller Luckenwalde letterhead, 1930

Gebr. Müller Luckenwalde invoice, 1927c. 1926

Contributed by Florian Hardwig

Gebr. Müller Luckenwalde invoice, 1927

Lithographia (Sample unavailable)

Bifur Typeface Specimen1928

Deberny & Peignot
Adolphe Mouron Cassandre

Contributed by Nick Sherman

Bifur Typeface Specimen

Phoenix Hosiery1920

Walter Dorwin Teague

Contributed by Nick Shinn

Phoenix Hosiery

Die Neue Typographie, lecture invitation1927

Jan Tschichold

Contributed by Tânia Raposo

<cite>Die Neue Typographie</cite>, lecture invitation

The Ship. Workers’ Palace2012

Rutger Vos

Contributed by Florian Hardwig

<cite>The Ship. Workers’ Palace</cite>

“Use Electricity!” advert for the Dublin Corporation Electricity Department1927

Photo(s) by “Mikey” on Flickr.

“Use Electricity!” advert for the Dublin Corporation Electricity Department

Ad for Rotax-Werk1926

Photo(s) by “ed” on Flickr.

Ad for Rotax-Werk

“Die Schweiz ist das Paradies des Wintersports” travel poster, Schweizerische Verkehrszentrale Zürichc. 1929

Atelier Fretz
Hilfiker

Photo(s) by “Philipp Messner” on Flickr.

“Die Schweiz ist das Paradies des Wintersports” travel poster, Schweizerische Verkehrszentrale Zürich

The Architect & The Industrial Arts1928

William Addison Dwiggins

Contributed by Florian Hardwig

<cite>The Architect & The Industrial Arts</cite>

Ein Totentanz by Walter Draesner1922

Contributed by Florian Hardwig

<cite>Ein Totentanz</cite> by Walter Draesner

Typographische Mitteilungen, Vol. 17, No. 10, Oct. 19201920

unknown

Contributed by Kirsten Solveig Schneider

<cite>Typographische Mitteilungen</cite>, Vol.<span class="nbsp"> </span>17, No.<span class="nbsp"> </span>10, Oct.<span class="nbsp"> </span>1920

Everth & Co. invoice, 1929c. 1928

Contributed by Florian Hardwig

Everth & Co. invoice, 1929

Kunstverein Jena exhibition handbills (1924–27)c. 1924

Walter Dexel

Contributed by Stephen Coles

Kunstverein Jena exhibition handbills (1924–27)

Karl Arnold invoices, 1920sc. 1925

Max Arnold
C. Doelle & Sohn

Contributed by Florian Hardwig

Karl Arnold invoices, 1920s