Chairs

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

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    Laszlo Maholy-Nagy

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  • Photogram

    Photogram
    Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, photogram, 1922. Light itself becomes a malleable medium for generation design and form.

  • Pneumatik

    Pneumatik
    Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, “Pneumatik” poster for tires, 1923. Hand-drawn letterforms and a photograph are integrated into an immediate and unified communication.

  • Staatliches Bauhaus

    Staatliches Bauhaus
    Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, title page, Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar. This page structure is based on a rhythmic series of right angles. Stripes applied to two words create a second spatial plane.

  • Broom

    Broom
    Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, proposed title page for Broom, 1923. This inventive design for the avant-garde magazine shows how thoroughly Moholy-Nagy understood cubism and Lissitzky.

  • The World Foundation

    The World Foundation
    Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, The World Foundation, 1927. In this satirical photoplastic, Moholy-Nagy shows “quack-clacking super-geese [pelicans]” observing “the simplicity of the world constructed as a leg show.”

  • Chairs

    Chairs
    Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Chairs at Margate, 1935. The juxtaposition of two images creates a contrast of pattern and texture and introduces a process of change into the two-dimensional image.