Robin Kinross

For twenty-five years, Robin Kinross has been making a case for typography as a matter of fine detail and subtle judgment, whose products concern all of us, every day. This selection of his writings-including some previously unpublished-brings his major themes into focus: the unsung virtues of editorial design and information design, the fate of Modernism in the twentieth century, and the virtues of a socially oriented design approach. His much sought-after and out-of-print pamphlet Fellow Readers (1994) is reprinted in full.

Perspectives on Typography

Unjustified Texts

Modern Typography

Jost Hochuli

Newly revised and expanded, this classic in book design argues for a non-dogmatic approach, one open to traditional and modern, and symmetrical and assymetrical solutions. Jost Hochuli's work of over 30 years as a book designer is showcased, along with detailed comments by noted designer and critic Robin Kinross."As a designer, Hochuli's main concern is to work out individual solutions for individual books. This book is sure to help anyone who is seeking to develop a considered attitude toward the design and production of the book as a codex." -Fernand Baudin, Logos

Practice and Theory

Designing Books

Tipografia moderna. Saggio di storia critica

Katherine Wolff

Fiona Ross

André Baldinger

Anton Studer

Georg Salden

Walter Haettenschweiler

Remo Caminada

Christian Flepp

Hans-Jürg Hunziker

Bruno Margreth

Mischa Senn

70 neue Textschriften

Zurich Type Design

An Essay in Critical History

Hans Peter Willberg

J. Christoph Bürkle

The ultimate synthesis of Jost Hochuli's work as a book designer.

Drucksachen, vor allem Bücher

Jaap van Triest

The work of Karel Martens occupies an intriguing place in the present European art and design landscape. His work is both personal and experimental. At the same time, it is publicly answerable. Over the decades of his practice, Martens has been prolific as a designer of books. He has also made contributions in a wide range of design commissions: including stamps, coins, signs on buildings. Intimately connected with this design work has been his practice as an artist. This started with geometric and kinetic constructions, and developed in work with the very material of paper. Over a long period he has been making monoprints. This book looks for new ways to show and discuss the work of a designer and artist, and is offered in the same spirit of experiment and dialogue that characterizes the work it presents. Its first edition was published in 1996 on the occasion of the award to Karel Martens of the Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Art. In response to continued demand, the book has been extended to 2019 and appears now in this fourth edition presenting almost sixty years of practice.

Drukwerk

Karel Martens

Marie Neurath

Entstehung und Prinzipien von Isotype

Die Transformierer

Richard Hollis

David Bennewith

Reprint Karel Martens

"This two-volume work retrieves and re-presents the English typographer Anthony Froshaug (1920-84): what he made, his ideas, his life. Typography & texts concerns the work of Anthony Froshaug. A substantial introduction by Robin Kinross outlines the nature and achievement of Froshaug: idiosyncratic, but of fundamental importance to any serious practice of design. Then a selection of his printed products is shown in reproduction and with extended critical captions, followed by layouts that he made as instructions. At the centre of this book is the section of texts: all the writings that Froshaug published in his lifetime or which exist in manuscript in some adequately finished state. This volume concludes with a reference section: catalogue of work, bibliographies, index (to both volumes). Documents of a life is not a biography, but rather a sequence of documents, mostly drawn from hitherto private sources, interspersed with necessary explanation by the editor. Among these documents: autobiographical memories by Froshaug, correspondence between him and a range of contemporaries. Notable correspondences represent his attempt in the 1940s to publish texts by Jan Tschichold, and his friendship with the writer Stefan Themerson. Memories by his friend Wolfgang Hildesheimer are given here for the first time in English. Froshaug's periods as a one-man printer in Cornwall, adjacent to the artists at St Ives, are documented. The book also represents his seminal teaching work: at the Central School of Arts & Crafts, the Hochschule fur Gestaltung Ulm, the Royal College of Art, Watford School of Art. Photographs and other visual material add to our sense of a remarkable man."--Publisher.

Typography & Texts

Anthony Froshaug

Designing Books provides practical guidelines for book design: page proportions, typefaces, paper choices, bindings, and book jackets. Numerous drawings and reproductions of book pages accompany the text. Also included is an overview of book design and the work of Swiss typographer, Jost Hochuli.

Robin Kinross

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