Typography and Jan Tschichold

e order and clarity to enhance effective communication. Between 1916-1923 many writers and artists in the west of Europe felt it necassary to destroy failed traditions before a sane world could be built. A literacy movement in Zurich, later to be known as the established Dada group believed that the world had gone mad and the only valid art was non-art and the only sense non-sense. Their pleasure in mocking and anti-seriousnous was their way of deriding and destroying the decadence of European society and its social injustice. The horrors of war to them, were only followed by the horror in a blind faith in technology to make everything right. There non-serious manner was a serious aim to employ an end to chance, intuition and irrationality in determining the direction of culture and society.
             The inter-disciplinary ideals of early twentieth century movements culminated in the Bauhaus in Weimar Germany in 1919. This school was the first to blend fine and applied arts in an idealistic and pragmatic way. It was a mix of hands on and learning where excellence of craftsmanship was emphasised and new attitudes, in Archi
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