June 25, 2001
Hans Schleger (Zero) for Martini and Rossi (1948)
Schlegers wife has written a book about him. It is handsomely
illustrated, and includes reproductions of all of his work for Martini
and Rossi: Pat Schleger, Zero: Hans Schleger - A Life Of Design, with an
introduction by Fiona MacCarthy (Aldershot: Lund Humphries, 2001), pp.
68-69, 110, 114, 115-16, 266. Published in the U.S. by Princeton
Architectural Press. Schleger (1898-1976) was a key figure in the history of graphic design. He was one of the first to bring
modernist design to the United States. See Modernism
and the Martini .
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