The visual language of modern design, the diagonal red bars, the sans-serif type, the geometric photomontage, was invented in Moscow between 1921 and 1932 by a small group of artists who were trying to abolish art altogether.

This is the story of Russian Constructivism. Of Vladimir Tatlin and his unbuilt 400-meter tower. Of Alexander Rodchenko declaring the end of painting and reinventing the poster. Of Lyubov Popova designing fabrics for ordinary Soviet workers before dying of scarlet fever at thirty-five. Of El Lissitzky carrying the movement’s typography into the Bauhaus. Of Konstantin Melnikov building workers’ clubs that European architects are still trying to catch up to. And of what happened when Stalin decided the experiment was over.

A movement that tried to dissolve itself into industry. A movement that produced the visual language of the twentieth century. A movement that was destroyed by the regime it had served.
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