For the Voice Pl.10
1923
This electrifying page comes from El Lissitzky's 1923 book *For the Voice*, created to visualize the booming poetry of Vladimir Mayakovsky. See that giant vertical text on the left? It acts as a 'thumb tab,' a brilliant navigational trick allowing readers to flip through the book and find poems instantly—essentially a 1920s version of a browser tab! The diagonal red text screams 'Scoundrels! Nailed by lines! Listen to this wolf howl!' capturing the aggressive, revolutionary energy of Russian Constructivism. Lissitzky didn't just want you to read the poem; he wanted the typography to yell it at you.
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