Futurist Typography

In 1909, Filippo Tomasso Marinetti's Futurist Manifeso demanded new artistic forms, in all media.
Painting, theatre, sculpture, music, architecture, cinema and literature were targetted by this manifesto and typography also played a major role. Marinetti's manifesto called for the destruction of outdated theories and assumptions about vision and language, demanding new ideas and forms.
As opposed to Cubism the major artistic movement at the time, Futurist typography found it's roots in poetry and language rather than Cubism's visual basis. The manifesto called for a breaking of the main rules of conventional writing. Marinetti himself is quoted as saying,
"banish punctuation, as well as adjectives, adverbs and conjunctions".
In 1914 the book Zang Tumb Tumb was published and is seen as a futurist masterpiece.
Futurism went on to influence such writers/illustrators as El Lissitzky.


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