Editor: Steven Heller
Publisher: Mohawk Paper Mills
Publication: 1989, First Edition
Binding: Softcover, section sewn
Pages: 28
Size: 255 x 355
Text: English
Design: Seymour Chwast
'Mohawk Paper Mills and The Pushpin Group present a journal of resource & inspiration, a yearly survey of historic design styles & typography & their influence on contemporary graphic design. Reproduced on a variety of Mohawk papers using various printing techniques, Design & Style examines the relationship between printing technology & graphic style.
(Introduction) 'De Stijl was an avant-garde art magazine founded in 1917 by Theo Van Doesburg, which he edited until his death in 1931. Its title, dutch for "The style," became the watchword for a movement of likeminded artists who championed not merely a new style of art but a new style of life based on universal harmony. The goal of De Stijl's leading form givers was to integrate art into all expressions of human activity. De Stijl embraced abstraction as the most viable means of translating twentieth-century science and technology into art. De Stijl vehemently rejected decoration in favour of spartan purity and sobriety. Through Van Doesburg's critical writings De Stijl spread internationally, influencing painting, architecture, furniture, and graphic design. As fine art it was in the vanguard of pure abstraction; as an applied art it inspired a distinctly new dutch typography...'
Condition: Very Good. Shelf ware consistent with age. Light rubbing to cover/edges. Light spotting to right edge of cover.
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