... narrative". I shall be investigating the way Postmodernism formed out of Modernism through the discipline of Typography. For this I shall look at Swiss International Style, which was a key figure in Modernist graphic design, and the way in which Wolfgang Weingart broke free from this style and formed the rules for the next generation of designers. In the years following the Second World War ... Grafik which was a very influential magazine that set out to show the significant trends for examination and discussion. Muller-Brockmann also published a book called Gestaltungsprobleme des Graf...

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... exhibitions promoting both Russian and Western art that shared a common vision of aesthetics steeped in technology, mass production, and social transformation. While Lissitzky was teaching architecture and graphic design at the Artistic Technical Institute in Vitebsk, his art shifted from figuration to geometric abstraction. Under the tutelage of Suprematist painter Kazimir Malevich, Lissitzky began a body of ... the new everyday life. In 1922 Constructivism was consolidated, with the first practical realizations of the Constructivists impulse to extend the formal vocabulary of earlier...

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... know its origins. Both the International Typography and Architecture Style had their roots firmly planted in the Bauhaus. Bauhaus is the famous German school of design that had inestimable influence on modern architecture, the industrial and graphic arts, including typography. It was founded in 1919 by architect Walter Gropius in Weimar as a merger of an art academy and an arts and ... more universal and scientific approach was embraced. International Typography sought after international legibility and International Architecture sought after universal living space. Both styles strived t...

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