Three books and a music CD have been published in the last couple of months. There will be a pause for breath now. The first books in 2011 should be the much-delayed book by Bollnow, Fred Smeijers’s revised Counterpunch, and the reprinted Unjustified texts.

We do now have copies of the new edition of Printed matter / Drukwerk in the office. North Americans, Australians, New Zealanders please note: we have distributors in your territories and copies are even now on their way there. Copies of this book have been with our Dutch distributor for some days already. UK-residing readers: you don’t need to go up the Amazon: please use your local bookshop; or we can supply to the more far-flung locations. We have made a lot of copies.

Teus de Jong died last week in hospital in Groningen, after a succession of serious illnesses. He was the typesetter of a number of our books, especially the paperbacks designed by Françoise Berserik. I knew him mainly through emails; but I also came to know him in the silent way in which one feels the presence of a compositor who gives order to words that one has edited or perhaps even written. One becomes aware of choices made, decisions taken – of a person behind the construction of the lines of text.

The book Modern typography has just been reprinted and copies are on sale now. We have made corrections and updates in the text, and have taken to the chance to vary some of the pictures in the ‘Examples’ chapter.