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An Avant Garde typographic experimentation includes features such as:

• variation in type font and size
• assymetrical layouts
• use of diagonals in layout
• designed use of white space
• emphasis on contrasting elements

The goal of Avant Garde Typography was to shock, break the grids and work within a deconstructed layout. What is a page? In particular, what is a page as a design unit, a frame of art and information, a medium of communication? This is a question that writers and artists were begining to ask at the end of the 19th century. In the 20th century, the printed page has been expanded, shrunk, turned around, uprooted, deconstructed and rebuilt along radically different lines by graphic design pioneers, working in a plethora of schools and movements. 

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