Jan Tschichold was born on the 2nd of April 1902 in Germany and
was the son of a signwriter. His first career was in advertising as a
calligrapher. He is best known for his for being a Modern Typographer
that revolutionised graphic design with his san serif type who was
hugely influenced by the bauhaus art movement. In 1923 when he was 21 years old he was said to be a changed man after visiting the Bauhaus exhibition in Weimar. Tschichold recorded several fonts that were commonly used in his New Typography book in 1928. Jan worked as art director
for Penguin Books from 1946 until 1949, which he is also best known for. His other interests are calligraphy, writing (since he was prodigious writer and researcher) and wood block colour printing.
To me, Tschichold is a very
inspirational typographer. The way he breaks the rules to placement of type is
incredible. Even on scale, angles and colour too, he uses his composition very
adventurously and it all comes down looking so professional and neat. In
my future work I will most definitely use his style of page design
since I myself am hugely interested in page design.
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