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 * [[image:Calderon-Type-Banner.jpg width="362" height="1040" align="center"]] || Typography

El Lissitzky *  El Lissitzky was an early 20th century artist that designed exhibitions and propaganda from the Soviet Union. This russian-born artist also worked as an architect, giving his work a more simple, geometric design. His design characteristics were very influential in Russia and helped to inspire the style known as Constructivism, a mostly architectural movement that influenced graphic designers to “construct” art and really think about the placement of words or phrases as part of the whole design. His piece (3) is a great example of his simple propaganda; this pieces is titled “Beat the Whites with a Red Wedge” (1919), referring to the civil war between the Bolsheviks (Reds) and the White army that was anti-communistic. ===

 Rick Poynor
 * Rick Poynor, a British designer and writer, reached the peak of his career when he worked as an editor in the 1980’s, working on Blueprint Magazine, Design Observer, and Eye Magazine. Later on in his life, he spent more time writing about different elements of design that have influenced many graphic designers. This issue of eye magazine (2) shows how typography is the 1980’s and later on grow to be more stylisted, much different that the rigid, geometrical and propaganda designs of the 1920’s.

 Daniel Eatock
 * Daniel Eatock is a modern-day, British designer that works with a large array of media, from graphic design to furniture design. Like Rick Poynor, he is also a writer, and this design (1) is the cover of his novel Imprint (2008). In this design, the small lines of text are curved into the shape of his thumbprint, a form of typography that has become more widespread. This idea of turning your designs into shape makes a simple image all the more complex when you look at the words hidden inside of it. ||