Research Catalog

Title

Unjustified texts : perspectives on typography / Robin Kinross.

Author

Kinross, Robin

Publication

London : Hyphen, 2002.

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Details

Description

391 p. : ill., maps, ports.; 22 cm.

Subject

• Sémiotique
• Histoire
• Graphiste
• Typographie
• Arts graphiques
• Caractère typographique
• Type and type-founding > History
• Graphic design (Typography)
• Grafische vormgeving
• Lay-out
• Modernisme (cultuur)
• Caractères d'imprimerie > Histoire

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Elders, contemporaries -- Marie Neurath -- Edward Wright -- F. H. K. Henrion -- Jock Kinneir -- Norman Potter -- Adrian Frutiger -- Ken Garland's writings -- Richard Hollis -- Karel Martens -- MetaDesign -- Neville Brody -- The new Dutch telephone book -- LettError -- Evaluations -- What is a typeface? -- Large and small letters -- Black art -- Newspapers -- Road signs -- Objects of desire -- Letters of credit -- Two histories of lettering -- Eric Gill -- Herbert Read -- Jan Tschichold -- Fifty Penguin years -- Teige animator -- Adorno's Minima moralia -- Judging a book by its material embodiment -- The book of Norman -- Adieu aesthetica -- Best books -- The Oxford dictionary for writers and editors -- The typography of indexes -- Stages of the modern -- Universal faces, ideal characters -- The Bauhaus again -- New typography in Britain after 1945 -- Unjustified text and the zero hour -- Emigre graphic designers -- Signs and readers -- Semiotics and designing -- Notes after the text -- Fellow readers.

ISBN

• 0907259170
• 9780907259176

OCLC

• 51194058
• SCSB-11196684

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library