Kurt Schwitters

Recent articles about Kurt Schwitters

Revolutionary material in the flesh

Issue 55, Spring 2005

Review

This travelling exhibition – organised by the Hayward Gallery, London – features posters, flyers, books and film from all the leading strands of twentieth-century Modernism.

Pieced together in Ambleside

Issue 81, Autumn 2011

Review

I’m sure that most designers will know about some aspect of Kurt Schwitters’ work, probably an…

Max Bittrof: visual engineer

Issue 9, Summer 1993

Feature

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 Kurt Schwitters

Five strategies tabled in Eindhoven

27 October 2014
Critical path, Graphic design, Posters, Visual culture

Van Abbemuseum throws new light on Jan van Toorn’s critical design practice
Homage exhibitions are inherently celebratory, writes Francisco Laranjo. However ‘Staging the Message: The Open Work…

Noted #46

22 November 2012
Graphic design, Typography

Schwitters, typewriting, wood type, the future Detroit Printing Plant and the United Stats of America
This past Friday the last British-made typewriter, the CM-1000, left the Brother factory in Wrexham…