One only needs to go back to the turn of the twentieth century to discover the roots and intertwining movements that led to what we call today the Modern Movement. The great breakthrough period a stretch of almost twenty years, that separates modern typography from earlier typographics, started with the publication of the Futurist manifesto in 1909 and peaked in the late twenties.Futurism was a violent reaction by artists and writers against the status quo …showed first 75 words of 1622 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1622 total…new typographical approach. In fact typography of the 1920’s should have been as different as the people that surrounded it and in many ways the Modern Movement restricted the freedom of individuality, as the rules and theories created a regimented world, and in cases a world to closely associated with fascism. But which ever angle one chooses to take on the Modernist Movement, Jan Tschichold proved to be an influential member of the Modern Movement.