maandag 9 maart 2009

Kamergymnastiek voor iedereen Cover Design Piet Zwart Photography

w.p. hubert van blijenburgh:
kamergymnastiek voor iedereen

w.l. & j. brusse n.v., rotterdam, around 1930
size: 25 x 17 cm
designer: piet zwart (cover)


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another dutch book i include because of its great cover design by one of the modernist pioneers, piet zwart (1885-1977).


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zwart visualised the subject of indoor gymnatics for everybody with a photograph in blue overprinted with diagrams in red, and slanted sans-serif text lines running parallel to the forearm of the exercising man.


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the author hubert van blijenburgh was a prompoter of gymnastics who published several books on this subject with the brusse company.


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the typography of the inner pages is more traditional, ...


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... but i quite like the red silhouettes of an exercising man ...


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... which are from the ten foldout plates at the back describing the exercises.


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