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The cover on the right and bottom left are set in “BEANS”, the winning entry by Dieter Zembsch in Letraset’s International Typeface Competition for 1972/73.

Story behind Beans and its designer Dieter Zembsch: lineto.com/Lineto.com/Frontpages/2008/04+Nov+2008/

Digital version of the face is available from Lineto: lineto.com/The+Fonts/Font+Categories/Graphic+Fonts/BEANS/

The inside is an actual pressed fern.
The drawings/portraits are quite possibly done by Lou. We are trying to confirm that.

AD: Volume 7, Number 5, 1941

An Intimate Journal For Art Directors, production Managers, and their Associates.
The Alex Steinweiss Issue

Image is from an issue of Design & Paper, mid 1940s.

Bio from The Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Library:
“Graphic designer and artist. Born Hanover, Germany, 1893. Metzig apprenticed with lithographer prior to establishing his own studio in the 1920s. He designed trademarks, logos, letterheads, brochures, and posters for clients. He is best known for his work for Pelikan Ink Company.
He also designed book covers and magazine covers and page layouts. In the 1930s, Metzig became known as a leading calligrapher and advertising artist in Germany. He immigrated to the United States in 1939 and settled in New York where he taught calligraphy and did freelance graphic design until his death in 1989.”