As part of my Editorial design module, we were asked to design one of two manifestos provided to us. In response to that brief, I chose to design a book for the DADA manifesto written by Tristan Tzara in 1918. Dada was an art movement formed during the First World War in Zurich in a negative reaction to the horrors and folly of the war. The art, poetry and performance produced by dada artists are often satirical and nonsensical in nature. In order to encapsulate that, I chose to letterpress the identity of the book with miscellaneous wooden type, to follow the unspoken “no rules rule” of dadaism.
