L'Album; giornale letterario e di belle arti
L'Album, an Italian literary and fine arts periodical printed in Rome in 1834 by the Tipografia delle Belle Arti for a general educated readership interested in letters and art. Its pages mix decorative letter puzzles, a rebus-like page of small scenes, and chess problem diagrams with printed text. A designer might take from them the compact typographic grid of mixed-media magazine pages, the playful use of single letters and musical notation as graphic motifs, and the crisp hatched-square board diagrams.
