Max Bill

Recent articles about Max Bill

Where the grid came from [EXTRACT]

Issue 107, Winter 2025

Review

One night in January 1959, I carefully peeled off a poster from outside the Zürich…

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.

Buenos Aires project

Issue 63, Spring 2007

Feature

Argentina’s dialogue with the European pioneers of postwar Modernism gave rise to a graphic design culture that remains fiercely contemporary

Beyond the canon

Issue 68, Summer 2008

Feature

Introduction to special issue by editor John L. Walters

Reputations: Jean Widmer

Issue 34, Winter 1999

Feature

‘Signage reflects both the complexity of space and the way a place is organised. And it is very satisfying’

Pre-postmodernity

Issue 50, Winter 2003

Feature

Does a small book from nearly 30 years ago encapsulate a ‘golden age’?

Wechlin-Tissot & Co brochure

Issue 16, Spring 1995

Feature

Max Bill’s brochure for a Zurich medical supplier shows a less formal side to his Concrete Art

Recent blog posts about Max Bill

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’…