Product details

Art.No:

63772

Author / Artist:

Spencer, Herbert (Hg.)

Title:

Subtitles / Reproduction:

Keyword:

Buchwesen - Buchdruck, Typo

Binding / Picture Size:

Broschur

Publisher:

Lund Humphries

Place of publishing:

London

Year of publication:

1961-64

Book Details / Size:

4°, je ca. 70 S., zahlr. Abb.

Condition:

Rücken mit kleinen Fehlstellen, min gebrauchspurig, innen sauber

Description:

Heft 3: Typophoto; The books of Diter Rot; National Zeitung; The drawings of Alcopley; From painting to photography: experiments of the 1920s; Heft 4: Mile-a-minute typography?; Road signs in Holland; Street level (by Robert Brownjohn; The Civic Trust and lettering: a visit to Epping; Heft 5: Reading by machine; Penguins on the march; DIN–a new, old cause; A case for auto-letterpress; Heft 6: Reading by touch; Pat McAuliffe of Listowel; Lettering in Coventry Cathedral; Typewriter type faces; Watching words move (a booklet insert by Brownjohn, Chermayeff and Giesmar); Heft 7: Piet Zwart; Design underfoot; Thematic photography (booklet insert); Education and the child; This is my private world; Heft 8: Josua Reichert: typography as visual poetry; Chance; Art and writing; A rich man's guide to bingo; Paul Schuitema; Concrete poetry and Ian Hamilton Finlay; Heft 9: Avant garde graphics in Poland between the two worlds wars; Henryk Berlewi and Mechano-faktura; Sunday photography; Crowns; Heft 10: Newspaper seals; The compass rose; The emergence of the printer's stock block; Sex and typography (by Robert Brownjohn. - Typographica was edited by Herbert Spencer from 1949 to 1967. Spencer was just 25 years old when the first Typographica was issued. Typographica was produced in two series: the "Old Series" and the "New Series". Each series was published in sixteen issues.