PIET ZWART (1885-1977) had no training in graphic design, so he was not limited by the rules and methods of tradition. He saw typography as an important cultural force in the twentieth century. As a “typotect” he constructed eloquent montages of text and images. He cut out photos and combined them with pointed texts and graphic elements such as bars, stripes and dots in the colors black, red and blue. Extreme differences in scale emphasized the dynamics.
