The other week, during some time we had off work, Peer and I went to did a cultural expedition to the two Tates to see the Henry Moore, Chris Ofili and van Doesburg exhibitions. The last of these gave us the most inspiration: Peer was transfixed by the animated films, and I found plenty of typography and print design to keep me excited.
So here’s a quick attempt to reproduce one of the designs; it’s César Domela’s cover for the 4th edition of i10:
And here’s my attempt:
http://playground.matthewbutt.com/i10.htm
No terribly exciting techniques in this one: just web fonts and some use of nth-child.
Acknowledgments
Books
- Fabre, Gladis and Wintgens Hötte, Doris eds (2009). Constructing a New World: van Doesburg & the international avant-garde. London, Tate Publishing. ISBN-13 978-1-85437-872-9
Matthew Butt 