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At every moment of the past all variations of the past where 'new'. But it was new 'THE' new. We should not forget that we stand at the end of a culture, at the end of everything old. - Piet Mondrian . epigraph in Jan Schichold. Die neue Typographie , Berlin 1928. p6. (p15)
Van de Velde was not alone in wanting reform. In 1907 group of German industrialist, architect and designers had from the Deutscher Werkbound, an association amid to bringing together art and industry. p 17
Walter Cyliax - German printer executive Woking in Zurich. as an art director and typographer Principles are a useful intellectual tool as long as they are alive. Dead principles correspond to intellectual laziness. p 31