Kaba Ornament, Deel 1: Vorm sutnaritems Jonathan Barnbrook

Jonathan Barnbrook

Seems silly trying to type more about this publication

This book retraces Helvetica’s first fifty years

unfortunately

clip art (such as the pointing finger that can be found on several pages of the book) and copious amounts of white space that helped push these elements to the foreground—all of which were colorized in the suprematist hues of red

Kaba Ornament, Deel 1: Vorm sutnaritems Jonathan BarnbrookWhat Bram de Does did with two shapes is kinda nuts. And even nuttier is that he was able to write three books about what he did with those two shapes. This is the first of those three booksand the rarest. Letterpress printed from metal typeincluding all of the arrangements of his Kaba ornamentthis is book is a monument to both meticulous composition and seeing what is possible. We are impressed.