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Typography papers 2, Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, University of Reading, 1997

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Content includes:
James Mosley: French academicians and modern typography: designing new types in the 1690s
Richard Southall: A survey of type design techniques before 1978
Michael Twyman: Engelmann’s Landscape alphabet
Robin Kinross: Type as critique
Gerrit Noordzij: Reply to Robin Kinross
Ole Lund: Why serifs are (still) important
Christopher Burke: Willy Wiegand and the Bremer Presse
Richard Hollis: Review of Graphic design (Jobling & Crowley)
Hendrik D.L. Vervliet: Review of Counterpunch (Smeijers)

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  • Format: Book
  • Year: 1997
  • Client/Publisher: Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, University of Reading
  • Size: 208mm x 296mm

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Typography papers 2, Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, University of Reading, 1997
Typography papers 2, Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, University of Reading, 1997
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