book (design) story #548
karl elkart:
bauordnung für die stadt hannover
göhmannsche buchdruckerei, hannover, 1930
printer: göhmannsche buchdruckerei, hannover
size: ?? x ?? cm
designer: kurt schwitters
these 1930's building regulations of the capital hanover are designed in a new typography style, ...
... with a stylised trefoil which is the old arms of hanover.
the decree is signed by karl elkart (1880-1959), who was hanover's senator for construction and a modernist architect. however he joined the nazis in the 1930s, ...
... not so the designer of this brochure: avant-garde legend kurt schwitters (1887-1948) was in charge of the printed matters of the hanover city council from 1928-1934.
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