A book of writings from twenty-five years of engagement on the peripheries of both journalism and academic life, and drawn largely from small-circulation and now hard-to-access publications. Persistent themes include: editorial typography, the emergence of graphic design in Britain, emigré designers, Dutch typography, the work of critical modernist designers
| availability | in print |
| published | 2002.03.28 |
| extent | 392 pp |
| dimensions | 210 × 125 mm |
| illustrations | b&w pictures |
| binding | sewn paperback |
| ISBN | 0-907259-17-0 |
| ISBN13 | 978-0-907259-17-6 |
| £20.00 |
An introduction
Examples
Elders, contemporaries:
Marie Neurath
Edward Wright
F.H.K. Henrion
Jock Kinneir
Norman Potter
Adrian Frutiger
Ken Garland’s writings
Richard Hollis
Karel Martens
MetaDesign, Berlin
Neville Brody
The new Dutch telephone book
LettError
Evaluations:
What is a typeface?
Large and small letters
Black art
Newspapers
Road signs
Objects of desire
Letters of credit
Two histories of lettering
Eric Gill
Herbert Read
Jan Tschichold
Fifty Penguin years
Teige animator
Adorno’s Minima Moralia
Judging a book by its material embodiment
The book of Norman
Adieu aesthetica
Best books
The Oxford dictionary for writers and editors
The typography of indexes
Stages of the modern:
Universal faces, ideal characters
The Bauhaus again
New typography in Britain after 1945
Unjustified text and the zero hour
Emigré graphic designers
Signs and readers:
Semiotics and designing
Notes after the text
Fellow readers
Index
