The Devětsil was an important association of artists, designers, architects, poets, actors, and filmmakers founded in Prague in 1920 and then in Brno in 1923. Connected by a Marxist political agenda, the discourse of Devětsil group was shaped by magazines and almanacs edited and designed by the group’s members, including Karel Teige, Jaromír Krejcar, Jaroslav Seifert, Artus Cernik, and Zdenek Rossman. Journals such as Zivot (Life), Pásmo (The Zone), and ReD, a shortening of the phrase Revue Devětsil, frequently juxtaposed images from popular film, modern achievements in architecture, transportation, and communication with text and images from the international avant-garde. The format of the Czech journals took an elementary, unornamented graphic style that connected it with the international tendencies of the new typography of the 1920s.