Manifestos by Pandora

Provocative pronouncements by groups of artists tend to share one characteristic: they favor stark black-and-white typography. Many manifestos tend to look like ordinary pamphlets.

Diatribe by Filippo Marinetti looked like a plain newspaper article, and was printed in Le Figaro in 1909.

Le Figaro

Many manifestos expressed their philosophy using the typographical vocabulary of newspapers, with bold headlines and well-marked paragraphs. One important detail was always the list of signatories. The fact that these texts were endorsed by a group of artists is one reason why their layouts were not more distinctive. Whoever designed the manifestos had to be as neutral as possible.