Great blog over at Creative Review about Spanish printers' response to the avant-garde in the 1930s...
"When the European avant-garde reached Spain in the 1930s, local printers found themselves ill-equipped to respond. Small printshops were mostly reliant on turn-of-the century typefaces: hardly fitting for expressing this bold new world. But, in a remarkable show of ingenuity, they found their own means of responding to art deco, futurism et al: ‘type case art’." Read in full
Posted by Simon Lewin on April 24th, 2009
In Art, Design, Places, Printmaking