EXPERIMENTA TYPOGRAFICA
Willem H. J. B. Sandberg

Willem H. J. B. Sandberg: EXPERIMENTA TYPOGRAFICA 11: DAS KONSTRUCKTIVE. Köln: Galerie der Spiegel, 1957. A near-fine softcover booklet in stiff, french-folded wrappers: light age toning. Introduction by Albert Schulze Wellinghausen.

5.5 x 8.75 perfect-bound booklet printed in three colors thorughout on a variety of paper stocks, ranging from translucent vellum to thick brown packing paper.

Looking at this booklet leaves me speechless-- so I had better let a more objective voice take over. Here's Herbert Spencer's review from the year of publication (from Typographica OS 14):

"Like the catalogues of Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum of which Sandberg is director, Experimenta Typografica is an exciting and stimulating publication. Published by Galerie der Spiegel, Cologne, in November 1956, the "manuscript" dates from 1944 and the experiments and exercises reproduced were made by Sandberg, then actively engaged in resisting the German occupation forces in Holland, during a period when he was in hiding in the country.

"The present book has, in fact, been compiled from a series of eighteen publications prepared in proof form about that time. The final arrangement and layout was made by Sandberg in october 1955 and the book now published has been printed by C. A. Spin & Zn, Amsterdam. It consists of sixty pages, plus cover, size 8.75 x 5.5 in., printed in three colours on a variety of material ranging from tracing paper to thick brown packing paper.

"The experiments reveal Sandberg's enormous enthusiasm for typography. The results are imaginative, robust and appropriate, and reflect the sensitive discrimination with which the quotations (from lao Tze, Goethe, le Corbusier, Karl Marx, etc. ) have been selected."

What more can I add?

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