Moholy-Nagy and the New Typography: A-Z - Hardcover

by Petra Eisele (Author), Isabel Naegele (Author), Michael Lailach (Author)

Avant-garde artist László Moholy-Nagy designed a room of 78 wall panels addressing the future of typography for an exhibition in Berlin in 1929. This book reproduces those panels together for the first time, with an A-Z dictionary of important terms and concepts.

Author Biography

Dr. Petra Eisele is one of the founders of the Society for Design History and the author of numerous books on design and design history. She edited the recent title Futura: The Typeface (Laurence King, 2017) along with Isabel Naegele and Annette Ludwig. Dr. Isabel Naegele is professor in the Department of Design at the University of Applied Sciences in Mainz (Germany). Michael Lailach is a curator and academic at the Art Library of the State Museums of Berlin.