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> did he? well he may have designed some stuff, but the primary russian
> avant-garde designer was rodtshenko. without his inventions 
> in photography,

Hmmm... yeah, probably the design was not by Majakovsky, after all... but
anyway, the children's book looked a bit like this:
http://www.manovich.net/images/majakovsky.gif

The graphic idea of the book was that it was completely made of different
typefaces.

... and the "Soviet Commercial Design of the Twenties" book I mentioned is
this one:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0896597660/qid=1000977993/sr=1-12/ref
=sr_1_0_12/002-8985641-0453667

> majakovsky may have
> collaborated, though. anyway, i ain't 100% sure so i've got 
> to check it out.

Well, I saw the picture of the book in "Soviet Commercial Design", and
somehow my mind connected the book heavily to Majakovsky. Maybe he wrote it
or something?

Whatever...

> a few examples:

Kuul.


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