[3 Piet Zwart artworks for a Bruynzeel Fineerfabriek blotter] 2022-11-14 at least five people

at least five people

Also note the reference to the year: 191

and space planning

with some specs for type and color

The designer of such a calendar has to restrain his artistic dreams

[3 Piet Zwart artworks for a Bruynzeel Fineerfabriek blotter] 2022-11-14 at least five peopleBefore the ballpoint pen was popularized in the 1950s, people wrote with fountain pens or dip pens. Because fountain pen ink of that era could be slow to dry and highly prone to smudging, people who wrote things often kept small, loose sheets of highly absorbent, unsized paper close at hand. Whenever one finished writing a letter, filling out an invoice, or signing a check, one would gently press this small card over the wet ink to soak up the excess