Presents the work and life of this essential typographer, until now too little known outside the circle of his friends and students. Froshaug was a deep and charismatic thinker-practitioner, whose insights return us to the fundamentals of typography. The book consists of two interacting volumes: the solid record of the work is placed against the contingencies of the life. A traditional monograph is unsettled by an exploration in documentary.
| availability | in print |
| published | 2000.10.12 |
| extent | 528 pp |
| dimensions | 240 × 170 mm |
| illustrations | 273 b&w + 86 colour pictures |
| binding | sewn paperbacks in slip-case |
| ISBN | 0-907259-09-X |
| ISBN13 | 978-0-907259-09-1 |
| £25.00 |
Typography & texts
Preface & acknowledgements
Editorial conventions
Introduction
Postscripts
A selection of work
Layouts
Texts:
World of plenty
Growing up in New Guinea
Life’s unfolding
Post haste
Chemical elements
Philosophy and the physicists
Greek science
Science at your service
Towards the codification of a standard for business letterheadings
The book as a means of communicating ideas
On typography
First conspectus
IPEX 1955
Visual methodology
From the notebook of a cybernetic novelist
Conference on design methods
Foundation course, Ulm 1953—61
Uppercase 5
Roadside traffic signs
Cybernetics
Univers
Univers: a letter
Typographic norms
Between poetry and painting
College diploma course: visual communication
Experimental printing workshop, Watford
Typography is a grid
Asymmetric typography (1)
Asymmetric typography (2)
Asymmetric typography (3)
Asymmetric typography (4)
What is a designer (1)
What is a designer (2)
Pioneers of modern typography / Penrose 1970
Anatomy of printing / Printing 1770—1970
The social context of art
The field of a majuscule
Design is an exercise in analogy
Nineteenth-century ornamented typefaces
Two antitypes
Catalogue of work
Job progress sheets
Bibliographies
Index
Documents of a life
Preface
Chronology
Childhood
Central School
Cornish days (1)
War years
First exchanges with Stefan Themerson
Publishing Tschichold
Beginning to print
Cucurrian
Senior lecturer
Jesse Collins
Notes for a book
Castle-an-Dinas West
Source papers
Paris
A type specimen
To Max Bill, and Ulm
At Ulm
Noughts + Crosses
The College
Method, signs, norms
Watford
The AA
Biography: Anthony Froshaug
Cornish days (2)
Teaching, mathematics, computing machines
