![Side 1: Paul Schuitema](/work/schuitema-duarte/schuitema-duarte-side1.jpg)
Side 1: Paul Schuitema
![Side 2: Matías Duarte](/work/schuitema-duarte/schuitema-duarte-side2.jpg)
Side 2: Matías Duarte
![Digital revival of an alphabet designed by Schuitema](/work/schuitema-duarte/schuitema-duarte-font.jpg)
Digital revival of an alphabet designed by Schuitema
![Printed copy](/work/schuitema-duarte/schuitema-duarte-printed.jpg)
Printed copy
![Book laid out in full](/work/schuitema-duarte/schuitema-duarte-full.jpg)
Book laid out in full
“Two Designer Timeline” was the final project for History of Graphic Design, which I completed as part of RISD’s 3-year MFA in Graphic Design. Doug Scott taught the course during the Fall 2021 semester.
For the project, I was assigned the Dutch De Stijl designer Paul Schuitema. I chose Google’s Vice President of Design Matías Duarte as a contemporary designer to compare Schuitema’s work against. The finished book functions as a do-si-do accordion, consisting of 38 10"x10" pages arranged in two 19-page runs. Duarte was born the same year Schuitema passed away, so the book forms a continuous timeline.