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Piet Zwart

Ring neue werbegestalter, Amsterdamer Ausstellung 1931, 1990

Cover image by Piet Zwart
Featuring the Circle of New Advertising Designers (Ring Neue Werbegestalter exhibition, 1931, Amsterdam.
Designers featured include Jan Tschichold, Piet Zwart, Max Bill, Max Burchatz, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Willi Baumeister, Walter Dexel, Dick Elffers, John Heartfield, Paul Shuitema, Karel Tiege, Kurt Schwitters, Ladislav Sutnar and more.

Details

  • Format Book
  • Designer/s Piet Zwart (Cover)
  • Year 1990
  • Client/Publisher Wiesbaden: Landesmuseum Wiesbaden
  • Size 243mm x 290mm
Piet Zwart (Cover)
Piet Zwart was a Dutch designer, photographer, and typographer and was heavily influenced by Russian Constructivism and the Dutch De Stijl movement. After studying at the School of Applied Arts, Amsterdam he worked as a graphic designer. From 1923, Zwart produced advertising materials for the cable manufacturer NKF and later for the Dutch Post Office (PTT), developing a typographic language that used diagonal composition, asymmetric layouts, contrasting type sizes, and photomontage in ways that were radical by the standards of the period. Zwart also designed the Film series of publications in the early 1930s, combining avant-garde typography with photographic imagery in support of the Dutch film culture movement. Explore related designers including Paul Schuitema and Jan Tschichold. See also De Stijl, Dutch Modernism, and Dutch graphic design history.

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Ring neue werbegestalter, Amsterdamer Ausstellung 1931, 1990
Ring neue werbegestalter, Amsterdamer Ausstellung 1931, 1990

 

Ring neue werbegestalter, Amsterdamer Ausstellung 1931, 1990
Ring neue werbegestalter, Amsterdamer Ausstellung 1931, 1990

 

Ring neue werbegestalter, Amsterdamer Ausstellung 1931, 1990
Ring neue werbegestalter, Amsterdamer Ausstellung 1931, 1990

 

Ring neue werbegestalter, Amsterdamer Ausstellung 1931, 1990
Ring neue werbegestalter, Amsterdamer Ausstellung 1931, 1990

 

Ring neue werbegestalter, Amsterdamer Ausstellung 1931, 1990
Ring neue werbegestalter, Amsterdamer Ausstellung 1931, 1990
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