Lazlo Lissitsky - A Hippo is No Help: The Story of Serengeti Helicopter Mechanics, Catherine Stevenson-Malone, National Geographic Minutia, 1983.

"To be a user of machines is to be of the spirit of this century. Machines transmute the emptiness into space, that is into something which our minds can grasp as an organized unity." - Combined quote from Lazlo Maholy-Nagy and El Lissitzky Lazlo Lissitzky is a fictional composite of these two towering figures written as a script to generate modernist/bahuaus/mid-century Swiss modern design. The outputs from the program are curated by sgt_slaughtermelon and named as the titles of fictional events/books/albums etc. that Lazlo Lissitsky would have contributed design work for in his career spanning roughly 1912-1999. Some titles have oblique references, some are just plays on words, and some ...View all