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Heavy Stuff in Elegant White-on-Black Lines

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Henry Jullien produced a beautiful work with schematics of printing machinery rendered in white-on-black, though I’m reasonably certain that the images were printed in black. The work was a catalog for the leading Belgian firm of printing presses and bookbinding apparatus.  The design is simple and very elegant and reminds me of some of the kinetic and non-represntational artwork that would come a few decades later.  (Heny Julien, Construction de Machines Typographiques, Lithographiques et Chromo-typographiques et Chromo-Lithographiques, 1881)

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