The Whole Present System [Bram de Does] SureyStones was the history of writing

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His design solutions instigated a shift in cinema posters and introduced a modernist approach to editorial design

Although largely a collection of German-language tributes to book- and type designer Max Caflisch

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The Whole Present System [Bram de Does] SureyStones was the history of writingPublished in 1972 by David R. Godine, this dramatic photogravure broadside features a poignant Civil War photograph of Union soldiers resting beneath a tree. Positioned below the image is an elegant block of text lettered by 38 year old Bram de Does. That aforementioned text is from a footnote from Walt Whitmans 1871 Democratic Vistas, in which he fiercely condemns the rigid military hierarchy of the United States army and navy as a "monstrous exotic"