Is this you? As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.
Claim your profile
by David Jury 416 pages, hardcover, $50 Published by Bodleian Library Publishing bodleian.ox.ac.uk The history of type design is not a straight timeline. As David Jury lays out in this superb book, type history is filled with enough players, disagreements, competing domains and profoundly consequential marketing changes to make a compelling read.
Publishing used to be a dirty business. I’m talking not only about the ink-stained fingers of disreputable writers, but also about the filthy hands of those who actually put the words on the page: the devils and cutters who worked with metal type.
Books received Compiled by Faye Dowling 365 AIGA Year in Design 22 Edited by Andrea Codrington AIGA, This year’s chronicle of North American graphics is designed by Chicago-based Studio Blue. To be reviewed in a future issue. A Type Primer By John Kane Laurence King Publishing, £17.95 The principles and practice of typography.
What binds the work of designers such as Evert Bloemsma, Martin Wenzel and Jeremy Tankard is a particular quality: the fluency of handwriting combined with a sense of rhythm required to provide an ongoing, left-to-right momentum for the reader. This is easier to achieve with a serif face, yet the dominance of sans serif as a symbol of everything Modern means that these dynamic characteristics are now sought in sans serif typefaces – traditionally a static letter-form.
Barbarian Press Books Forthcoming Wood engraving by Edwina Ellis (from A Christmas Carol, 1984) Bordering
on the Sublime Ornamental Typography at the Curwen Press.
As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.
