Dlia golosa (For the Voice) (1923) dwiggins that’s a shame

that’s a shame

This tribute to printed currency is also a showcase of the engraver’s art and a reminder that every square inch needs to be considered—because someday someone might make a book of those inches

A useful reminder of what we can do when we’re not helping people sell shit stuff

But it’s from the de luxe edition of 120 copies printed on fancy paper and with an extra suite of broadsides printed from some of the American proprietary types in question

Dlia golosa (For the Voice) (1923) dwiggins that’s a shameWeve been sitting on this one for a while. How does one write a description for a book thats in just about every single survey of graphic design? Were just gonna copy and paste with abandon. Published in 1923, the concrete poetry book For the Voice can be described as El Lissitzkys tour de force of textual visualization. In collaboration with Vladimir Mayakovsky who contributed the poems, El Lissitzky brought type together with geometric shapes that