Jan tschichold

Jan Tschichold was a typographer, book designer, teacher and writer. (exhibition poster example)

Elizabeth Meggs and Philip B. Meggs in 1984.

Jan Tschichold. Die Frau ohne Namen (The Woman Without a Name) (Film poster for the Phoebus-Palast cinema, Munich). 1927. Photolithograph. 48 3/4 x 34" (123.8 x 86.4 cm). Gebrüder Obpacher AG, Munich. Peter Stone Poster Fund. 225.1978. Architecture & Design

Jan Tschichold. Type design information compiled and maintained by Luc Devroye.

Oskar Schlemmer - Bauhaus 1931

How should we go about making typographic laws, rules and guidelines for the web?

Jan Tschichold. Buster Keaton in: "Der General". 1927. Offset lithograph. 47 x 33" (119.4 x 83.8 cm). F. Bruckmann A.G., Munich. Gift of the designer. 291.1938. Architecture & Design

Published in Berlin in 1928, Tschichold’s book Die Neue Typographie was one of the key texts of modern design, partly due to its grasp of Constructivist ideas and new print technology, but equally, because it was a manual for practicing designers. In the years leading up to its publication, Tschichold struck up a correspondence with many European artist-designers, including Kurt Schwitters, El Lissitzky, László Moholy-Nagy, Herbert Bayer, Piet Zwart, and Ladislav Sutnar, among others. In the…

Found a new source (or fairly new, published last year by Thames & Hudson) about my personal favorite among graphic designers of the past: Jan Tschichold : Master Typographer : His Life, Work & Legacy. It includes a chapter by Martin E. Le Coultre about early work in Munich. The posters for Phoebus-Palast cinema were Tschichold's first large commission and one in which he was given much latitude to experiment. In late 1926 the Phoebus-Palast was opened with great fanfare as a branch of the…