Content includes:
Black Mountain College
The founding of the College by Lewis Shelley
The Hochschule at Ulm by Josef Albers
Albers’ ‘Graphic Tectonics’ by Irving Finkelstein
Brighton Festival Exhibition of Concrete Poetry
Exhibition notes and map
The early days of Concrete Poetry by Eugen Gomringer
What is Kinetism? by Lev Nusberg
Symmetry: Nature and the Plane by Charles Biederman
A Non-Aristotelian Creative Reality by Charles Biederman
The Coherences by Anselm Hollo
Great Little Magazines: No. 4, ‘Mecano’
Two Men by Kurt Schwitters
Towards a Constructive Poetry by I. K. Bonset
Manifesto on the Lawfulness of Sound by Raoul Hausmann
Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content, Regional Histories, Typography & Type Design
40 examples of Czech typography from Typografia Vol. 18 (1907). Czech commercial printing at the crossroads of Art Nouveau and early modernism, with work by Otokar Císař, Method Kaláb, and Mořic Novotný.
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Direction of Travel is a project by Christian Nolle, a half Danish/half German London based artist and map collector. He has spent decades creating work, often in photographic form, that looks at the interplay between aviation, politics and the cities we live in. Christian is also the Founder and Head of Good Caesar, a design and technology studio.
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Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content, Movements, Regional Histories
Japanese modern design was heavily influenced by European art movements, particularly modernism and the Bauhaus school. As Japan's advertising industry expanded, it increasingly drew from Western culture, especially television and film, resulting in designs that were eclectic, vibrant, and infused with modernist energy.
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