Poster Hiroshima, 1957, silkscreen, 88 x 60. The exhibition was about drawings relating to the bombing of Hiroshima, which is why Crouwel chose bright red, to mimic Japanese lacquer, and combined it with the heavy black word. The letter was a constructed
_03_1956–1964: the van abbe museum and the nks
condensed grotesque departing from the thin white lines in between them. This was derived from Swiss designers such as Armin Hofmann. ‘I wanted a word image that was itself very heavy and threatening. I had a sort of monolith in my head, in which the white has as humble
a role as possible, which is why I chose this form, with those scorched chimneys rising up out of it.’ [Broos 2003, p. 40] Again it was constructed out of rectangular and round forms.