The Rote Fabrik (“Red Factory”) building is a former factory dating from 1892, located in the Wollishofen neighbourhood of Zurich, Switzerland. The place is now used as a music venue and a cultural centre. The name comes from the color of the red bricks of the building, but also because left-wing parties were part of the campaign to turn the location into a cultural centre.
In 1999, André Baldinger designed their 157th newspaper issue, playing with his BVH Newut.
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Can’t remember where I’ve already seen those legs. The Shadoks ?
The most famous walking typography may be from El Lissitzky, a constructivist who designed the children’s book Four (arithmetic) actions (1928). Two spreads are shown below.
A few years before El Lissitzky, in 1925, Kurt Schwitters issued a Dadaist children’s book titled Die Scheuche: Märchen (“The Scarecrow: A Fairytale”). Written and designed together with Kate Steinitz and Theo van Doesburg, it likewise features characters composed from glyphs and other typographic material, including a Bauersmann (“farmer man”) as a B on legs.
That’s the one I was looking for!
Thank you Matthijs and Florian for all that material !