The New Typography in Scandinavia: Modernist Design and Print Culture

by Grace Lees-Maffei and Trond Klevgaard

This is the first monograph on Scandinavia's 'new typography'. It provides a detailed account of the movement's lifespan in the region from the 1920s up until the 1940s, when it was largely incorporated into mainstream practice. The book begins by tracing how new typography, from its origins in the central and eastern European avant-garde, arrived in Scandinavia. It considers the movement's transformative impact on printing, detailing the cultural...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350112399
• ISBN13: 9781350112391
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Length: 280 Pages