In 1928, the first of Joseph Stalin’s Five Year Plans, a series of nation-wide centralized economic plans for the Soviet Union, imposed communal farming on its citizens, Herbert Hoover, running on a platform of continued peace and prosperity, was elected 31st President of the United States, (“News and Events of 1928”) and Jan Tschichold, a bold, self-confident, young, typographer from Germany, published Die Neue Typographie (The New Typography), a radical new view of type and design. At first glance, the release of Tschichold’s book may not appear to carry the same significance to the world stage as Stalin’s and Hoover’s policies. While this may be true, The New Typography had a profound impact on the world of design, influencing …show more content…
Always a strong proponent of functional design, Tschichold looked at design with a utilitarian point of view. According to Tschichold, functional designs show a greater understanding of typography’s role: communication (Eskilson 233). In order to achieve clarity in communication, Tschichold was convinced that type should follow a logical flow on the page, predetermined by content; form follows function. Tschichold wrote, “Every part of a text relates to every other part by a definite, logical relationship of emphasis and value, predetermined by content. It is up to the typographer to express this relationship clearly and visibly, through type sizes and weight, arrangement of lines, use of colour, photography, etc.”(67) By 1928, and the release of The New Typography, Tschichold was a staunch promoter for the exclusive use of sans serif type and asymmetrical layouts, believing these the most efficient way to achieve clarity of information. “His work… was functional, aesthetically satisfying, and designed for reproduction by machine-type composition and newer printing technologies” (“Jan Tschichold…”). Later in life, Tschichold abandoned his views on the exclusive use of sans serif fonts and asymmetrical layouts, realizing that in certain circumstances, symmetrical layouts and traditional serif fonts were more appropriate and more functional,
Joseph Stalin became the leader of the Soviet Union after Lenin’s death in 1924. In 1928 Stalin began the First Five-Year Plan, an ambitious attempt to quickly modernize the Soviet economy. In the speech below, given in 1933 to the Central Committee of the Communist Party, Stalin explained the goals and results of the Five-Year Plan.
“Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at who it is aimed at.” (Joseph Stalin) Joseph Stalin was a notorious dictator of the Soviet Union who ruled with an iron fist and crushed any and all oppression. Despite his ruthless streak he modernized Russia more than any previous ruler has done. Joseph Stalin grew up in poverty and shame. During adolescence and young adult he learned how to question authority and to get what he wanted. Later on in life he he pursued his ambition of power and overthrew the Communist Party under the late Vladimir Lenin and established his own form of Communism.
Almost everyone knows what a monster Adolf Hitler was, but most people do not know that one of the great ally leader of World War II, Joseph Stalin, had committed even greater atrocities than Hitler. Joseph Stalin was a ruthless and yet diligent dictator of the Soviet Union, whose rise to power influenced a multitude of major events in his country’s history. Due to Stalin’s impactful reign, he made the Soviet Union become a global superpower, underwent difficult hardships such as the Great Famine in the Soviet Union, and after his death, caused the Soviet Union to go through a process known as de-Stalinization.
Communism is a political and social act where everything was controlled by the Government and the citizens having no say. Life in Russia has forever been different than that of Canada. Although Russia claims to be a democracy, its citizens do not fully know the idea of freedom. Joseph Stalin had a plan to make Russia the super power of the world but ultimately failed because communism never works. Stalin released new ideas that he thought would help improve the economy but never actually did. From the time that Stalin came into power in 1924, up until his death in 1953 he transformed Russia’s previously more week society into an active military and industrial superpower striking fear and terror into its citizens. Stalin did play a huge role in defeating the Axis power in WWII but is seen as a communist who was a ruthless ruler responsible for the deaths of over 20 million people. Although some people believe that Joseph Stalin’s plan for communism was good, in reality many horrors affected his people, the economy, and the future of Russia.
In 1917, Tsar Nicholas ll is the current ruler of Russia. Russia’s economic growth is increased by the czar’s reforms of the production of more factories. Since, Russia desperately needed to keep up with the rest of Europe’s industry. This reform worked out perfectly, but the working conditions of these factories didn’t please factory workers. After the events of the Russo-Japenese War, “Bloody Sunday”, and WW1, all of Russia was in utter chaos under the czar’s ghastly leadership. With no signs of the czar’s attempt to solve the problems that kept coming up, all of Russia banded together and filled the streets with strikes and riots. A revolution was peaking among the peasants. The uprising brought Nicholas ll no choice but to abdicate
Leslie Slater is a handwriting enthuses who believes that the future of technology is crippling our art of writing and her strong evidence suggest that she might be on to something. The tone in opinion piece is pure and evidential, Leslie mention a substantial amount of studies and she really worry about good old fashion ink writing.
The influential typeface Helvetica, a neo-grotesque1 sans serif type design, came into being in the early 1950s - after the Second World War. The expectation of the designers, Edouard Hoffman and Max Miedinger was to create a neutral typeface that had great clarity, no intrinsic meaning in its form and could be used on a wide variety of signage to remake a new identity apart from the past (). Originally named as Neue Haas Grotesk, the typeface was changed to Helvetica in 1960. Today, Helvetica, as an aesthetics constant, although not perfect, mastered the quantum leap in 1957 from metal type to the digital age of word processing. Axel Langer, a curator of Islamic Near Eastern Art, mentioned it as ‘an impersonal typeface for today and tomorrow ().’
Throughout time, there have been countless artists, designers and typographers that had the opportunity to make a bold statement, invent the next best thing or to engrave their name in the design industry for all eternity. Although ordinary people don’t realize a good design when they see it, they know it has attracted them somehow and they feel the need to ask and wonder how it came to be. Without question, Eric Gill has note ably revolutionized the type world. Without him there would be no benchmark for humanist typefaces; without Gill, there would be no Gill Sans, the font that will consistently be seen as a crisp, clean and readable font; as all typefaces should be. Despite for his one notorious face, he has created 11 typefaces, wrote
Comrade General Secretary Joseph Stalin’s rise to power in the former Soviet Union was born in the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1917. His association and friendship with Vladimir Lenin also played an integral part in the dictator’s power grab. Stalin participated in the December 1904 oil worker strike in Baku, Georgia, which ended successfully later that month. It was the first time in Russian history that a collective bargaining agreement was signed between oil company owners and oil workers. With his newfound credibility, he wrote several popular articles speaking out against the current regime. Stalin also raised paramilitaries to spread propaganda. They were funded by raising money through bank robberies, kidnappings, and
4.The First World War brought out the worst of the forces that had been steadily gnawing at Tsarist Russia for years. The Russians had little in the way of maintaining a modern army. They had more troops then any other European Army, yet they did not have enough rifles, cannon, and ammunition to adequately supply them. In going to war with Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Ottoman Turkey, all of the routes from which the allies could easily ship them supplies were blocked. The Baltic by the German High Seas Fleet, and the Bosporus by Ottoman shore guns and the Gallipoli peninsula. This left Russia dependent on her own industry, which was not sufficient enough to fight a major war against three powerful enemies, while your most important
In 1945, something exorbitant happened, it was the beginning of the existence of the world ending in an instant. The Cold War, between the U.S. and the Soviet Union (USSR) was one of the biggest events in the 20th century. The U.S. would do anything to contain the spread of communism, and the USSR wanted to prove capitalism was obsolete. There was no fighting between the two countries, but more so a race, a race to the moon, a race for the best military, and a race for a more destructive atomic bomb. The only reason why humans are still alive is because M.A.D., (Mutually Assured Destruction) but the end the United States failed the spread of communism, and tens of thousand of death for the American soldiers and the Viemanes lives.
Socialism for one country… It was the framework for the political agenda and the political ideology that Joseph Stalin believed in. The culture and atmosphere that filled post revolutionary Russia was one that started with hope, only to be driven further into terror and despair than ever before. Stalin was a master of manipulation, terror, and propaganda, and he used whatever means necessary to further his agenda for over thirty years in Russia. One means of disseminating propaganda was through the use of literature, writers, and the Socialist Realism movement. While the purported intention of Socialist Realism was to free Russian intelligentsia, and writers in particular from their restraints of capitalism, western thinking, and the previous reign of censorship instilled by the Tsarist autocracy. In reality, the era building up to, and then the state mandated law of Socialist Realism and the decades that followed were a movement of propaganda. The intention was to contain the writers of the time period from bearing witness and speaking out against the atrocities the government was committing against it’s people. While literature was used as propaganda by Stalin to further his agenda, it also became a force against him, as writers came out of the shadows to speak against the darkness and oppression of the time period.
Look around and what do you see? You see letters forming creative words on this page, on TV and magazines. These letters form words which can be read in such a particular way. The typography behind the design seeks for the readers attention. The typography in design is the unique personality that identifies the product or advertisement, similar to fashion. Typography visually gives more to the idea behind the design. It is a way to call out and be heard without making a sound. It combines elements in new ways with different themes and ideas. The idea of typography has not changed since it was first created. The late seventieth century and early eighteenth century, type designers work was laborious and they had very little
Before the nation of Russia became the international powerhouse that we knew as the USSR, it was first the small backwater country, whose economy ran on the use of serfs, Czar 's ruled every aspect, and the chance of growth was limited; however, once the year 1917 came along, the entire aspect of what was to be the Russia nation changed into a very strange and new one, called the United of Soviet Socialist Republics. The Soviet Union was, at one point, second only to the United States of America and had the power to destroy the entire planet with the single acknowledgement of their leader, because of their nuclear capabilities and their political power. The Russian country became the great Communist powerhouse after a great revolution in
After researching one of my favorite typefaces I decided to do it on Paul Renner who has had an impact on typography. Paul Renner was a well-known typeface designer. He was born August 9, 1879 in Wernigerode, Germany and died April 25, 1956 in Hodingen, Germany. He was also a graphic artist, type designer, a typographer and a remarkable painter and teacher. One of his most popular typefaces he designed is called Futura. The Futura typeface was one of the most successful and most used type of the twentieth century. Renner attended a Gymnasium, a secondary school where he studied humanities. Students that studied Greek and Latin for nine years which was what Renner did provided students with a ticket to higher education. What he chose after