Content includes:
Shoulder Notes
Catalogues and Monographs
About the Cover
Recent Press Books
On Type: Form, Pattern, and Texture in the Typographic Image Charles Bigelow
Designing Literature: Creative Collaboration Dana Gioia
Helen Gentry, 1897-1988
Christopher Weimann, 1946-1988
This issue is set in Monotype Bembo with Castellar display types by Othmar Peters at Mackenzie-Harris Corp. Engraving by Harms Graphics, San Bruno; and Kayenay Graphics, Mason City, Iowa. Cover and offset illustrations printed by Phelps-Schaefer Litho-Graphics, Brisbane, California. Letterpress by Wesley B. Tanner, Berkeley, and Les Ferriss at The Lapis Press, Emeryville, California. Fine Print gratefully acknowledges the support of the L. J. Skaggs and Mary C. Skage Foundation and the California Arts Council, who provided partial funding for this issue.
Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content
Westvaco Inspirations was founded in 1925 by the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company. Bradbury Thompson’s produced approximately sixty issues, experimenting with typography, photography, and illustrations.
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Design Archive Feature, Design Education, Movements
A short free-to-access feature on Swiss Design. The movement was influenced by Bauhaus and De Stijl, sought clarity and visual unity, making it a powerful force in global graphic design that remains influential today.
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The Cuban film poster conveys the spirit and ideals of the Cuban revolution. A time of political change, an uprising that ended the brutal dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. The Danish Film Institute have a collection of Cuban Film Posters from the past 50 years.
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