The posters of Tschichold
Jan Tschichold (1902–1974 ) was one of the most outstanding and influential graphic artists and typographers of the 20th
century. Throughout his life he stood in the service of print and
writing, first as a talented young calligrapher and designer of some 70
posters and then, later on, as a self-critical typographer and typeface
designer. In his posters, he expresses the avant-garde ideas of the Neue
Typografie, or New Typography, which were strongly influenced by the
Bauhaus. Tschichold received many prizes for his work. For example, the
Société Typographique de France appointed him an honorary member in
1960, and he was named an honorary Royal Designer of Industry by the
Royal Society of Arts in 1965.
This book is an analytical
examination of Tschichold’s posters. It contains his own collection of
posters, with works by Hans Arp, El Lissitzky, László Moholy-Nagy, Oskar
Schlemmer, and others, as well as the approximately 70 posters he
designed himself.