Kaba Ornament, Deel 1: Vorm lbitems typographic experiments

typographic experiments

of the advanced training class and of the School of Design

and James Mosley

This is the story of that typeface

and in particular his conception of design as an essential factor in the legibility of a text and the transmission of knowledge

Kaba Ornament, Deel 1: Vorm lbitems typographic experimentsWhat 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.