ordnungOrder is not a style. It is a courtesy extended to the reader.

Plakat 1 / 4Opening address
Grosser Saal
14. 10. — 09.30

IKVO 9
Internationaler Kongress für visuelle OrdnungKongresshalle Nordhafen
Kai 4, Saal A–D14.–17. Oktober 1968
täglich 9–18 Uhr

raster

Plakat 2 / 4The grid does not confine. It gives every element an address, and the eye a way home.

IKVO 9
Internationaler Kongress für visuelle OrdnungSeminar: Das Raster
Leitung H. Vellacott15. Oktober 1968
Saal B — 10.00 Uhr

form

Plakat 3 / 4schrift ist
sichtbare sprache

One typeface. Two weights.Nothing set in capitals that does not need to shout. Flush left, ragged right, and trust the white.

IKVO 9
Internationaler Kongress für visuelle OrdnungVortrag: Die Groteske
Dr. Annelies Roth-Mäder16. Oktober 1968
Saal A — 14.00 Uhr

fläche

Plakat 4 / 4Surface, rhythm, interval. A closing exhibition of 120 posters from 19 countries.

IKVO 9
Internationaler Kongress für visuelle OrdnungAusstellung: Fläche
Foyer, Eintritt frei17. Oktober 1968
Vernissage 18.00 Uhr

Four posters.
One grid.
No ornament.

The ninth congress gathers typographers, cartographers and timetable-makers for four days on a single question: how little does a message need? Each poster is built on the same four columns and twenty-five rows.

Programme
14. 10.	Opening address: order as courtesy	Saal A
15. 10.	Seminar: the grid, from timetable to poster	Saal B
16. 10.	Lecture: the grotesque and its discontents	Saal A
17. 10.	Exhibition opening: surface	Foyer