Side 1: Paul Schuitema
Side 2: Matías Duarte
Digital revival of an alphabet designed by Schuitema
Printed copy
Book laid out in full
Paul Schuitema and Matías Duarte
“Two Designer Timeline” was the final project for History of Graphic Design, which I completed as part of RISD’s 3-year MFA in Graphic Design. Doug Scott taught the course during the Fall 2021 semester.
For the project, I was assigned the Dutch De Stijl designer Paul Schuitema. I chose Google’s Vice President of Design Matías Duarte as a contemporary designer to compare Schuitema’s work against. The finished book functions as a do-si-do accordion, consisting of 38 10"x10" pages arranged in two 19-page runs. Duarte was born the same year Schuitema passed away, so the book forms a continuous timeline.