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Dan Reisinger, artist, and graphic designer, was born in Kanjiza, Yugoslavia (now Serbia) in 1934 and died in Israel in 2019. His works were exhibited in Israel, Europe, the Far East, and won many awards. In 1998 he won in the Israel Design Award, the first to be given the award in this field. Reisinger collected and preserved his archival materials throughout his life. After his death, his family continued to take maintain the archive, and in 2020, deposited it with the National Library of Israel. The archive includes materials relating to various periods in Reisinger's life, from his childhood in Yugoslavia, studies at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, his IDF service as the head of the Israel Air Force's advertising department, studies in theater costume and set design at the Central School of Art and Design in London in the early 1960s, and culminating with his career as a graphic designer and independent artist in Israel from the 1960s until his death. The archive contains: drawings, posters, paintings, sketches for design and branding work, photographs of various works and projects for companies, organizations, and institutions in Israel and abroad, documents, letters certificates, catalogs from exhibitions where he presented over the years, press clippings, and video clips documenting his professional activities. Among other things, the materials include sketches and calendars Reisinger designed in the 1970s for companies such as ISCAR and Pazkar as well as for the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York; prints for "Scrolls of Fire," an art book created by Reisinger in 1977 illustrating the songs of Abba Kovner; branding, design, signage for Israeli companies including El Al Israel Airlines, Clalit Health Insurance Fund, Tambour, and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries; sketches for British Royal Mail posters designed during Reisinger's studies in London, posters for the Habima National Theater, sketches for stamps and medals ; sketches and photographs of the monument to commemorate Jewish victims of WWII Hungarian forced-labor units; and photographs of murals and environmental sculpture created for hotels. In 2021-2022, the archive was sorted, cataloged, and converted to digital media as part of the project "The National Digital Collection of Design Archives" managed by the National Library of Israel. اقرأ أكثر