Paul Stirton & Steven Heller on the influential typography done between the two world wars (5/17/19) - a podcast by Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New York

Tracing the revolution in graphic design in the 1920s, the exhibition Jan Tschichold and the New Typography: Graphic Design Between the World Wars, on display at the Bard Graduate Center gallery until July 7, displays materials assembled by typographer and designer Jan Tschichold (1902–1974) in Weimar, Germany throughout his life. Tschichold’s 1928 book “Die Neue Typographie” was one of the key texts of modern design, partly due to its grasp of Constructivist ideas and new print technology, but also for its practical use as a design manual. His collection of design and art works by esteemed colleagues like Kurt Schwitters, El Lissitzky, László Moholy-Nagy, Herbert Bayer, Piet Zwart, and Ladislav Sutnar, purchased by Phillip Johnson and donated to the Museum of Modern Art, forms the foundation of the exhibition. In this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large, the show’s curator Paul Stirton, an associate professor of modern European design history at the Bard Graduate Center, joins critic and co-founder of the design criticism program at SVA Steven Heller for a discussion of the work that changed graphic design forever.

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