Jan Tschichold

Heavily influenced by the Bauhaus, Tschichold was a leading typographer of the 20th Century. He wrote ' Die Neue Typographie', a manifesto of modern design, where he condemned all fonts but sans serif, a postulation he later dismissed, along with Modernist design as a whole, as 'authoritarian and inherantly fascistic', opting rather for neo-classical design.

Tschichold's 'The Form of the Book' gave explanations of ways to divide a page into aesthetically strong proportions. The above images are evidential of his preoccupation with principles of page construction.