Morgen Bulletin Possibly 1945

This is a news bulletin from April 24th, 1945, printed on what looks like pretty cheap paper. I love that you can see the texture of the paper itself, the way it’s aged. The ink is so dark against the pale ground. The type is dense, packed with information, and the layout is traditional, regimented. The letterforms themselves are clean and functional, all business. It makes me think about the urgency of getting information out during wartime, about the material conditions of printing and distribution, the physicality of communication itself. Look closely, and you’ll see the ink isn’t uniform; it's darker in some areas, lighter in others, like a landscape seen through the window of a moving train. There's a messy quality that betrays the supposed neutrality of the printed word. This bulletin reminds me of the paintings of Blinky Palermo, where simple shapes and colors are arranged in ways that feel both accidental and deliberate. Like Palermo, Duyff seems interested in the interplay between intention and chance, order and chaos. Art embraces ambiguity.