This occasional, book-length work is edited and produced at the Department of Typography, University of Reading, and is now published by Hyphen Press. It publishes extended articles on its subject, exploring topics to the length to which they want to go. Its scope is broad and international, its treatment – serious and lively.
| availability | forthcoming |
| published | summer 2008 |
| extent | 160 pp |
| illustrations | b&w + colour pictures |
| binding | sewn paperback |
| ISBN13 | 978-0-907259-39-8 |
| price | £25.00 |
- synopsis |
- contents
Stuart Hall:
The social eye of Picture Post
Paul Stiff: Austerity, typography, Britain: prelude to the optimism of modernity
David Lambert:
Book packaging and the new illustrated book: Adprint, Rathbone, and Aldus
Designers against the bomb: 1960s posters by Robin Fior, Ken Garland, and Ian McLaren
Robin Fior:
Recollections of designing and politics, 1957–1970
Ian McLaren:
Designing for CND
Robin Kinross:
Design in Central-European London
Sally Jeffery:
Desmond Jeffery’s political printing
Paul Stiff and Petra Cerne Oven:
Ernest Hoch and reasoned typography
