Het Nationale Dagblad Possibly 1940

This newspaper, "Het Nationale Dagblad", was made in 1940, and who knows how many hands touched it. It’s a landscape of type and image—dense blocks of text and a grainy photo, all fighting for space on the page. I imagine the person putting this paper together, working against the clock. They're layering information, deciding what’s urgent, what's important, how to grab your attention amidst the noise of the world. Each headline, each article, is a little gesture, a mark made with purpose, trying to convey meaning. Newspapers remind me that even in art, we're always editing, revising, trying to get it right. There’s a conversation happening here, a dialogue between the news of the day, the layout of the page, and the reader's eye. It's like how painters borrow and steal from each other, building on what came before, responding to the moment.