Utrechtsch Nieuwsblad Possibly 1940 - 1945

This is a newspaper, the "Utrechtsch Nieuwsblad," from May 10, 1940, and it's all about Germany breaking loose against Western Europe. It has a real urgency to it, a bold typography and layout that feels both informative and like a call to action. The grey newsprint is densely packed with information, but there's also a visual hierarchy at play, with different font sizes and column widths creating a kind of rhythm across the surface. I'm drawn to the way the headlines loom, promising information and inciting action. It feels almost sculptural in its arrangement, like a collage of different voices and perspectives. It's a total time capsule. This image reminds me of other news broadsides and propagandist material by artists like John Heartfield, with its use of text as image, art becomes a tool for communication, resistance, and social commentary. There's an ambiguity here, a negotiation between information, propaganda, and historical record, and that's where the intrigue lies.