Mierny pokrok 3 - Užitková grafika na Slovensku po roku 1918

The third volume of the series Applied Graphics in Slovakia after 1918: Modest Progress examines the professionalization of applied graphics in Slovakia from the 1930s through the establishment of the Slovak state. Hand in hand with this development, modernism also gained a foothold on the Slovak art scene. Its proponents were primarily teachers at the School of Applied Arts (ŠUR) in Bratislava, as well as its graduates associated with the magazine Slovenský typograf and working for the “Central European advertising agency” Redopa (Vladimír Bahna, Juraj Stanko, Ľudovít Kudlák). This agency also employed Ladislav Csáder, a talented graduate of the School of Applied Arts in Budapest. Although he spent most of his life in Bratislava and his name is largely unknown to the general public, thanks to his work he can rightly be considered a graphic designer, typographer, and photographer of European stature. It is precisely his work that is the focus of the largest part of this bilingual, richly illustrated publication, featuring hundreds of period works, most of which have never been published before. The book is published in collaboration with the Slovak Design Center and the Academy of Fine Arts and Design (VŠVU).