Dlia golosa (For the Voice) (1923) dwiggins the respected calligrapher who hand-lettered

the respected calligrapher who hand-lettered innovative and remarkable signs for the Morgan Library

This tribute to printed currency is also a showcase of the engraver’s art and a reminder that every square inch needs to be considered—because someday someone might make a book of those inches

this is one of those things that will spark you imagination and your conversations

we would quickly sketch them on paper

The documentation is based on the achievements and archive of Alfred Hoffmann

Dlia golosa (For the Voice) (1923) dwiggins the respected calligrapher who hand-letteredWeve been sitting on this one for a while. How does one write a description for a book thats in just about every single survey of graphic design? Were just gonna copy and paste with abandon. Published in 1923, the concrete poetry book For the Voice can be described as El Lissitzkys tour de force of textual visualization. In collaboration with Vladimir Mayakovsky who contributed the poems, El Lissitzky brought type together with geometric shapes that