The New York Public Library offers access to thousands of materials digitized from its collections. Visual, as well as some textual and audio/video materials, are available via the NYPL’s Digital Collections. Textual and some visual materials are available via HathiTrust. All of them are freely available from wherever one has access to the Internet. Today, let's look at Magazin DP.

Magazin Družstevni Práce also known as Magazin DP  was published in Prague by Družstevni práce [Cooperative Work], a cultural organization active in Czechoslovakia from 1922 to 1957. It brought together designers, manufacturers, and distributors of applied arts and modern design to create affordable items of mass consumption for a wide range of people. Družstevni práce eventually created its own company with stores in Prague and many other cities where it sold its own items which had to meet both functionality and modern design requirements. 

In 1935 Družstevni práce started publishing Magazin DP which offered a review of  many aspects of cultural life and also publishing poetry and essays. The magazine's typography was designed by Ladislav Sutnar (1897-1976), one of the first designers to actively practice the field of information design. Black-and-white photographs were mostly by Josef Sudek (1896-1976), originally a bookbinder who later founded the progressive Czech Photographic Society (1924).

The NYPL has digitized the first four volumes of Magazin DP   which can be viewed and browsed by year: 1933/34; 1934/35; 1935/36, and 1936/37. Please note that with the first volume of Magazin DP   the Library also digitized v. 1 of Žijeme: obrázkový magazin dnešní doby which was the official magazine of Svaz československého díla [Union of Czechoslovak Works] and was published in the cooperation with Družstevní práce in Prague in 1931-33.