"Written by leading design scholar Alan Bartram, this book examines the rise and evolution of the Futurists' approach to typography and graphic design, placing it within the context of contemporary artistic and literary movements. The volume features examples of some eighty Futurist books or other designs for print, many of them relatively unknown or previously unpublished, accompanied by new translations of many of the featured texts. Bartram illuminates the complicated meanings of the futurist designers' graphic works in order to provide a new understanding of their extraordinary and influential visual language."--Jacket.