
The third essay in Karen Armstrong’s Graphic Design Theory is El Lissitzky‘s Our Book. El Lissitzky was a Russian deeply invested in the Soviet cause. He served as an ambassador for the Russian avant-garde in Germany in the 20s, sending Constructivism’s geometric abstraction throughout Europe. In his essay he discusses book arts in depth and the dissolution of thought-communication forms.
This is a paper I wrote for my Multimedia Survey class looking at the process that the world has taken in technological innovation. Read ahead and enjoy, I’ve added links where they didn’t exist in the paper version so you can see some of the stuff I’m talking about.