Visible Language, Vol 06, 03, Summer 1972

Content includes:
After the Book? George Steiner
Four Replies to George Steiner’s Address to the Ferguson Seminar in Publishing, John V. Brain, Norman S. Fiering, John
Freeman & Leland E. Warren
From Mistress to Master: The Origins of Polyphonic Music and as a Visible Language, Gordon K. Greene
Visual Language in the Old English, Cadmonian Genesis and Thomas H. Ohlgren

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Visible Language
Visible Language was an academic journal on visual communication, typography, and information design. It was first released in 1967 at Case Western Reserve University and was called the Journal for Typographic Research.

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Visible Language, Vol 06, 03, Summer 1972
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