@typeoff A footnote to your nice article on the under-appreciated Lapidar https://www.typeoff.de/2021/02/lapidar-typeface-from-genzsch-und-heyse-born-in-1874/: Moholy-Nagy mentions it in an Offset (1926) essay as one of the two typefaces “without distortions and flourishes” he can recommend for contemporary typography. (The other is Venus. Dunno why he omits Schelter & Giesecke’s Breite Grotesk, which he also used often and is shown in Bayer’s poster design on the same page.)
#Bauhaus #Typography #GraphicDesign #MoholyNagy #LapidarTypeface #VenusTypeface
The poor man’s Moholy-Nagy
Speaking of Moholy, as the Illinois Institute of Technology was about to incorporate his School of Design here in #chicago, he met a promising student named Robert Brownjohn, who went onto a career in commercial art.
He did the cover for #therollingstones "Let It Bleed."