The art of necessity

O cómo el diseño, en la precarísima sociedad española de los años 30, se aúpa como puede a las corrientes de vanguardia europeas. Un artículo para Creative Review por Jordi Duró y Mery Cuesta.


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When the European avant-garde reached Spain in the 1930s, local printers found themselves ill-equipped to respond. Small printshops were mostly reliant on turn-of-the-century typefaces… read more

Published in Creative Review magazine| London, April 2009.
Picture: Detail from an ad for a glass and window installer, 1933

 


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