An original account of the life and work of legendary designer Jan Tschichold and his role in the movement in Weimar Germany to create modern graphic design Ric

"Probably the most important work on typography and graphic design in the twentieth century."--Carl Zahn, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Illustrated throughout, this book explores the modernist typographer Tschichold, and discusses the work seen in the context of his life and the times in which h