book (design) story #623
(unknown) :
l'hiver en suisse
office nationale de tourisme, zurich / lausanne, around 1930
printer: art. institut orell füssli, zürich
size: ?? x ?? cm
designer: alex walter diggelmann
here we have a travel brochure from the years just before the swiss tourist office commissioned a modernized photographic style with herbert matter and paul renner.
the dynamic drawing showing downhill racing skiers is signed "digg", ...
... standing for alex walter diggelmann (1902-1987). see story 531 for another tourist publication with a cover by him.
the photographs inside ...
... are credited to meerkämper (davos), nägeli (gstaad), dahinden (zürich), brandt (arosa), among others.
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