László Moholy-Nagy
Recent articles about László Moholy-Nagy
Banquet of images
For its 50th anniversary, the Arles festival stages a
generous array of contemporary and historical
exhibitions. Photo Critique by Rick Poynor.
A message for modernity
Issue 92, Summer 2016
In the late 1950s I had tea in London with László Moholy-Nagy’s former secretary, surrounded…
Weimar volumes
Issue 91, Spring 2016
The musical Cabaret gave a popular view of Berlin between the two world wars; the…
A tradition with breaks
Issue 86, Autumn 2013
Stencil typefaces – late arrivals on the typographic scene – are going in new directions and rediscovering their history.
Buy this book
Issue 58, Winter 2005
Jürgen Holstein’s volume of rare Weimar-era jackets and covers is an extraordinary labour of love
Instruments of radical change
Issue 26, Autumn 1997
Rodchenko, Lissitzy and Moholy-Nagy were founding fathers of modern graphic design. Art historians have assured…
Max Bittrof: visual engineer
Issue 9, Summer 1993
Max Bittrof was one of the leading German designers of the 1920s. Unlike many exponents of the New Typography, he was able to apply the aesthetic to a major commercial client
Recent blog posts about László Moholy-Nagy
Tear-off type walls in Berlin
20 May 2013
Design history, Graphic design, Reviews, Typography
The Bauhaus Archive presents a tour of German-language typographic history with ‘On-Type: Texts on Typography’.
They say that an exhibition should never be a book on a wall, but ‘On-Type’…