El Lissitzky

Lazar Markovich Lissitzky was a Russian artist, designer, typographer, photographer and architect. He was one of the
leading Russian avante garde designers, helping to develop Suprematism (An art movement based around geometric shapes and patterns). His work is mainly based around propaganda for the Soviet Union and is heavily laced with simple colour and geometric patterns.

The reason for choosing to look at El Lissitzky is because of the constructionist nature of his work. Although not actually 3D as Julien Valle's work is, it does hold a very constructed feel. The geometric shapes, and the energy put throughout his work really works against the typography he has chosen.  He generally chose to use a very Russian looking typeface (as most of his work was propaganda posters) and this sat next to the edgy, sharp movement of the triangles works very well.

The piece pictured above is quite different from his usual work, but just demonstrates his ability to play around with a more experimental typography. Again, a prominent use of geometric shapes, overlaying typography and even combining the two, look at the 4. I suppose it is the constructed element that i feel links Vallee and Lissitzky's work together. Whereas Vallee 'builds' his pieces, El Lissitzky's work just seems so well composed and layed out that it does feel like it has been built and constructed.