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Modern typography: an essay in critical history

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Authored by Robin Kinross, this volume offers a tour through the history of Western typography, from the time when it can be said to have become “modern” to the present moment. It highlights different cultures in different times, tracing the developments and shifts in modern typography while giving attention to ideas, social contexts, and techniques, thereby also bypassing the tired tropes of stylistic analysis. Included are concise accounts of modernist typography in Central Europe between the wars, and in Switzerland in the 1950s and ’60s. Traditional typography in the United States, Great Britain, Germany, and the Low Countries is also discussed sympathetically.

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Unjustified texts: perpsectives on typography

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Somewhere in the borderlands between academia and journalism, Robin Kinross has made a case for typography as a matter of fine detail and subtle judgement, whose products concern all of us, every day. This selection of his shorter writings from the past 25 years, including a number of previously unpublished essays, brings his major themes into focus: the unsung virtues of editorial and information design, the fate of modernism in the 20th century, the work of dissident and critical modernist designers, the contributions of émigré designers from Europe, and the virtues of a socially oriented design approach.

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La Typographie moderne : un essai d'histoire critique, n.é.

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S’appuyant sur le postulat de Jürgen Habermas selon lequel la modernité est un « projet inachevé », Robin Kinross situe les débuts d’une véritable pratique moderne de la typographie aux alentours de 1700, avec la publication, en Angleterre, du premier traité de typographie, les Mechanik exercises (1683-1684) de Joseph Moxon, et la création du romain du roi en France. Il livre ici une histoire de la typographie moderne envisagée dans un sens large, bien au-delà du modernisme formel, en privilégiant les démarches et les praticiens qui, en Europe ou aux États-Unis, ont su articuler savoir et pratique.

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Topography papers . 7

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Typography Papers is an occasional book-length publication with a broad international scope, publishing extended articles relating typography to adjacent disciplines. Number 7 presents an eclectic collection of articles beginning with a lengthy consideration by type historian H. D. L. Vervliet of Claude Garamond: the designer whose new roman typefaces debuted in Paris in the 1530s and went on to dominate Western typography for the next two centuries. The late Justin Howes looks at the eighteenth-century belief in the necessity of perfection in type and printing. Eric Kindel discusses a nineteenth-century scheme for univeral letters. Sue Walker writes on twentieth-century typefaces designed for reading by young children. The issue concludes with Linda Reynolds's eyewitness account of pioneering work in legibility research in the 1970s and 1980s.

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God's amateur: the writing of E.C. Large

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E.C. Large (1902 - 76) was, successively, an industrial chemist, a writer, and a plant scientist. As a writer he is known for his magisterial history of plant diseases, "The advance of the fungi", and for two novels, "Sugar in the air" and "Asleep in the afternoon". "God's amateur" is a companion to our republication of these two novels.

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A book from deValence

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Depuis la création du studio de design graphique deValence, ses membres s'attachent à mettre en place un processus de travail garantissant un dialogue permanent entre les différents acteurs des projets auxquels ils sont associés. Imprégnées de la culture des avant-gardes artistiques des années 1920, leurs réalisations se caractérisent par une approche dynamique des relations texte-image et une attention particulière portés à la clarté des informations et à la structure même de l'objet. Impliqué par ailleurs dans une réflexion sur le design, deValence est à l'origine de plusieurs supports de recherche dont la revue Back cover, la maison d'édition B42 et l'association F7. A book from deValence présente une sélection de travaux conçus par le studio depuis 2001 (identités visuelles, affiches, livres, cartons d'invitations...) retraçant près de quinze ans de collaborations. Elle est accompagnée d'un essai de Victor Guénan et d'un entretien avec l'artiste Raphaël Zarka. La préface est signée Robin Kinross.