Tschicholds bibliotheek uitgepakt

Federico Barbon

$76.00 USD

Poster for the exhibition “Tschicholds bibliotheek uitgepakt” at KASK & Conservatorium with the support of ECAL. The poster designed by Federico Barbon, and printed by Lezard Graphique.

The exhibition features the corpus of bibliographical sources cited by the graphic designer Jan Tschichold in his work Die neue Typographie (The New Typography, 1928). This founding text of modernist graphic design has been at the centre of debates, while the sources cited by its author have often been overlooked.

All the books have been identified and collected in original, reprint or facsimile, including the production of new facsimile editions.

The books on display allow to explore their impact and their relationship with the principles set out in The New Typography.

Thus, Bauhaus books, works by Le Corbusier, Futurist manifestos, German standards on printed matter find their place in this exhibition, which is the result of a research project carried out at ECAL between 2019 and 2022.

In Ghent, the exhibition is complemented with a selection of Belgian magazines, such as La Cité (1919–1935) and Het Overzicht (1921–1925) from the collection of the Kunstenbibliotheek, as well as the results of a four-day workshop held by BINGO (Belgian Institute for Graphic Design) with graphic design students from KASK & Conservatorium. Students interpreted the historical material to make it their own as a contemporary and local response to the exhibition.

via The Sources of Jan Tschichold’s The New Typography

Dimensions: 700 x 100 mm
Design: Federico Barbon
Printing: Screen Printing