Moderate Progress ― Graphic Design in Slovakia After 1918

Moderate Progress, the third part of the series Graphic Design in Slovakia after 1918, focuses on professionalization of graphic design in Slovakia in the early 20th century until the birth of the Slovak State in 1939. Taking place during the Slovak modernist period, this professionalization was spread mostly by teachers from the School of Arts and Crafts in Bratislava, but also through people around the Slovak typographer journal and people working for the Central-European advertisement agency Redopa (Vladimír Bahna, Juraj Stanko, Ludovít Kudlák). The talented Ladislav Csáder, the central figure of the book, was working in Redopa and also was a graduate from the School of Arts and Crafts. He lived most of his life in Bratislava and is not very well known to the public—but he remains one of the most influential graphic designers, typographers, and photographers in European history. This bilingual English-Slovak publication is full of rich pictorial material—mainly artworks that have never been published before. The book is published in collaboration with the Slovak Centre of Design and Slovak Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava.

Lubomír Longauer studied at the Secondary School of Applied Arts in Bratislava before teaching at the People's Art School in Topolcany. In 1966 he became co-founder of Group 29, then continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. He has since become a teacher at the Academy, where he headed the newly created Department of Graphic Design. Longauer has mainly worked for Slovak publishers, cultural institutions, galleries, and theaters. He has had 12 solo exhibitions and has been involved in many national and international exhibitions. He established the Slovak Design Museum and donated his extensive collection of graphic design to it.