Tschichold’s Single-Alphabet type design, 1929.

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Description: Single-Alphabet type design

TitleSingle-Alphabet type design

Creator nameTschichold, Jan

Creator nationality/cultureGerman

Creator roleDesigner

Creation date1929

Object typeGraphic Design

MaterialsUnknown

DimensionsUnknown

LocationUnknown

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsLetters in artType and type-foundingBooks

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A Mentor

Paul Rand

Design, Form, and Chaos

Cézanne had been dead nineteen years and Cubism was celebrating its eighteenth birthday when Jan Tschichold wrote “Elementare Typographie.” The art “isms” new and not so new had been around for some time: Impressionism, Pointillism, Cubism, Futurism, Suprematism, Constructivism, Neoplasticism, and Dadaism. But names such as Mondrian, Schwitters, Arp, Malevich, Van Doesburg, Kandinsky, Marinetti, Le Corbusier, and Lissitzky, who represented the avant-garde of painting, architecture, and …

Author

Paul Rand

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.199-203

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00036.016

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-14896&redirecttoanchor=14027

Chapter subject tags:Graphic artsDesignAestheticsTschichold, Jan, 1902-1974

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