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Ernst Reichl, Wide Awake Typographer website
Ernst Reichl, a prominent American book designer from the 30s to the 70s did something no other book designer has done, to my knowledge: he wrote comments and stories and critiques about many of his book designs on index cards, … Continue reading
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“For the Voice” Mayakovsky and Lissitzky
Several years of research and graduate student experiments resulted in the publication of a facsimile edition of El Lissitzky’s designs for Mayakovsky’s poems, sometimes titled “For Reading Out Loud” and sometimes titled “For the Voice.” The final publication was a collaboration … Continue reading
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Zwart’s Het Boek van PTT
For inclusion in Steven Heller’s 2011 “I [heart] Design” I wrote about one of my favorite designs: an ingenious book for the Dutch post, telephone and telegraph office. Some spreads below.
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Typography in Indian Languages
Following my four months teaching as a Fulbright lecturer at four institutions in India, I wrote an article about the typography project I had adapted for the four design programs. The article was published in Visible Language, vol. 37, no. … Continue reading
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