I was initially attracted to Het boek van PTT (The Book of PTT), because of how wonderfully weird it looked. The color scheme is reminiscent of the CMYK basics, and was engaging to me because I have been collaging single, bold colors in contrast with black hand-lettering in my process books recently. While I was…
My initial visual impressions of the book were that the drawings looked very basic and unsophisticated. The figures of the people holding out their hands and attempting to touch appeared to be very basic sketches, like those drawn by kids. However, the second aspect that caught my eye was the black bird. The…
The book that I chose for this assignment was, Het boek van PTT Telegrafie en Telefoni, designed by Piet Zwart. The first visual impression of this book I had was I noticed the strange graphics on the front and I was curious what the inside of the book looked like. Out of all the books…