Category: functionalism

• Max Bill’s Form

  

  I love my copy of Max Bill’s Form, its cloth-bound cover covered in old age spots. A previous owner cut and glued the incredible dust cover on the paste-down endpaper. It was affordable though not cheap, a utilitarian purchase. Many modernist designers believe they can determine an object’s meaning and use once and for all.…

  Mário Moura

  January 21, 2022

  Design, Design History, Formalism, functionalism

  Form, International al Typographic Style, Max Bill, Swiss Style