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Cesar Domela. 25 Jahre AEG-Dampfturbinen. Berlin: VDI-Verlag GmbH, 1928
“The Algemeine Electricitäts-Gesellschaft (AEG) was a pioneering industrial company based in berlin. In 1928 they published this A4 size brochure "25 Jahre Dampftubinen" to commemorate the 25th anniversary of their steam turbine production. If you think that the dividing orthogonal bars on the wrappers, title page and table of contents look a bit like a Piet Mondrian painting you are not that wrong: the book was designed by Dutch artist Cesar Domela-Nieuwenhuis (1900-1992) who was a member of De Stijl movement. Asymmetric layout with bold sans-serif (often capitals for the title), bold rules and bold page numbers are typical for the early "new typography" style. Note the page asymmetrically placed page numbers with vertical rule. Chapter ends are marked by a horizontal rule. The book finishes with a long rule and the word "end", followed by an impressum where Domela again celebrates the Stijl style.”
Felix Wiedler. “25 Jahre AEG Dampfturbinen”. Book (design) stories. From new typography to swiss style: modernist book design in Germany and Switzerland 1925–1965 (and beyond), 2007 http://wiedler.ch/felix/books/story/295
“Photomontage is the artistic incorporation of one or more photographs into a cohesive composition (together with typography or color) on a twodimensional surface. A definite skill is involved, a knowledge of the nature of photography (the gray scale), of the division of the surface, and of the compositional structure. We are living in an age of extreme precision and maximum contrasts, and we find these expressed in the photomontage. It presents an idea, the photograph an object. There are certain analogies between photomontage and film, the difference being that film presents in sequence what the photomontage concentrates on the surface. Its most important use is in advertising, whether commercial or political.”
César Domela-Nieuwenhuis. "Fotomontage: catalogue of the exhibition at the Kunstgewerbemuseums, Berlin (April 25–May 31, 1931)". In: Photomontage between the wars (1918-1939). Madrid: Fundación Juan March, 2012 (p. 130)