The original
by Aleksandr Rodchenko, “Lengiz. Books on all the branches of knowledge,” advertising poster for the Leningrad Department of Gosizdat (State Publishing House), 1924, gouaches and cut paper on photographic paper, mounted on cardboard
the remixes
and my absolute "favorite", the piece de resistance -- the cover i saw in an airport bookstore that set off the whole El Rippitovsky / Rodchenko-remix obsession, so contrary to the original spirit of Bolshevik modernism it beggars belief, and it looks really shitty too:
there are countless other examples of graphic designers ripping off Suprematist and Constructivist design - Elizabeth Guffey has a whole chapter in her book Retro on the Soviet Chic thing of the Eighties, Swatch using all that Bolshevik modernism design etc etc
