The New Typography

"J an Ts chichold uber die neue Ty pograph1e" [s1gned "Neumeyer (Munchen)"]. Typograph1sche Mitteilungen 24, no. 1 (January 192 ...

Herbert Bayer was the only Nmaster� at the Bauhaus with a long-term commitment to typog­ ra phy: but- by compar1son w1th Renner ...

In an article entitled - as if he were conscious of the by then growing list of such experi­ ments - "noch eine neue schrift," ...

work fo r the publisher Btrkhauser (from 1941). led on to his celebrated reform at Penguin Books (1 947-1 949)_ For an account o ...

JAN TSCHICHOLD THE NEW TYPOGRAPHY A HANDBOOK FOR MODERN DESIGNERS BERLIN 1928 PUBLISHER FOR THE EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE OF GERMAN P ...

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CONTENTS Introduction 7 GROWTH AN D NAT URE OF THE NEW TYPOGRAPHY The new world view 11 The old typography (1440-1914), retrospe ...

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PIET MONDRIAN: For the man of today there exists only the equilibrium between nature and spirit. At every moment of the past all ...

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INTRODUCTION The appearance of my Special Number of Typ ographische Mitteilungen enti­ tled elementare typo graphie started a li ...

Modern man. whose vision of the world is collective-total. no longer individual-specialist. needs no special reminder of the rig ...

GROWTH AND NATURE OF THE NEW TYPOGRAPHY ...

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THE NEW WORLD-VIEW The revolutionary technical discoveries of the late 19th and early 20th cen­ turies have been only slowly fol ...

true purpose. by satisfying basic needs through mass-produced objects of highest quality, is to make possible for the first time ...

thrills of active modern life. The theatre. an illusion of life. has lost its draw­ ing power. for life itself has become a play ...

forms which look utterly unlike the old. And it is just as impossible to argue away these new needs as it is to deny the need fo ...

THE OLD TYPOGRAPHY (1440-1 914 } The history of typogra phy shows a steady progress from its invention down to about the middle ...

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