Window Printing at MARTa Herford, Museum for Art, Architecture, Design.
part 1: 10-2017/02-2018, part 2: 07-2018
context: The project started as part of the exhibition ‘Revolution in red-yellow-blue – Gerrit Rietveld and Contemporary Art’. It continued with a second installment 6 months later and is now part of the permanent collection of the museum.
Source material: high contrast stripes required for large glass doors to make them safe and accessible for the visually impaired (DIN 18040). A typeface designed by Theo van Doesburg cofounder of the ‘De Stijl’ movement. The face is constructed entirely of perpendicular evenly weighted strokes and based on a square, subdivided in 25 smaller squares.