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Book Arts Reporter: The Oxford Conference,
On Type: Robert Bridges, Poet-Typographer
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The Featured Bookbindings: The Fourteen Faces of Ourika
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The Book Art of Valenti Angelo: An Homage,
The First Printing Press in America

Cover design by Abe Lerner, New York. Interior typography based on a design by Linnea Gentry, Amaranth Press, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Composed in Jan van Krimpen’s Monotype Spectrum by Mackenzie-Harris Corp., San Francisco. Engravings by Bill Bratt, Bauer Engraving Co., San Francisco. Letterpress by Wesley B. Tanner & Will H. Powers, Berkeley, California. Offset lithography by Helicon Press, San Francisco.

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Fine Print, Vol 9, No 1, 1983
Fine Print, Vol 9, No 1, 1983. Cover design by Abe Lerner
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Rudolph de Harak designed over 50 record covers for Westminster Records as well as designing covers for Columbia, Oxford and Circle record labels. His bright, geometric graphics can easily be distinguished and recognised.

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The typographic designs produced for the National Theatre by Ken Briggs are not only iconic and depict the Swiss typographic style of the time, but remain a key example of the creation of a cohesive brand style.

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I first came across Kens work in the Unit Edition’s superb monograph, Structure and Substance, published in 2012. Although I had owned a few of the British industrial design magazines, Design, for a few years before, in which Ken had designed numerous covers for.
In the ambitious new monograph Rational Simplicity: Rudolph de Harak, Graphic Designer, Volume shines a light on the complete arc of the exceptionally rich and varied career of Rudolph de Harak, showcasing his vibrant, graphic, formally brilliant work, which blazed a colourful trail through the middle decades of the twentieth century.