Dada emerged at Cabaret Voltaire in Zürich in 1916 — an anti-art response to the insanity of the First World War. Hugo Ball, Tristan Tzara, Hannah Höch, and Raoul Hausmann cut up newspapers, pasted photomontage, and set type at every angle to build a visual language of deliberate disorder.

The palette is aged newsprint, stamp-ink red, Prussian-blue halftone, and newsprint black. Typography mixes typewriter, bold sans, and cut-out serif inside one composition. If the world is absurd, the design must be too — inconsistency is the only honest grammar.