Robert Brownjohn: Sex and Typography

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The design profession doesn’t produce many larger-than-life figures. Robert Brownjohn-BJ, to just about everyone who knew him, and everyone did-was one. His gifts were immense, as were his appetites. Enfant terrible and visionary, he was both. Mick and the Stones wanted to hang with him. Of course it couldn’t last. Robert Brownjohn was simply too big for this world. He died in 1970 at the age of 45, a victim of his own excesses. Today, he is best remembered for his … More >>

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Type & Layout: How Typography and Design Can Get Your Message Across-Or Get in the Way

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“A surprising and useful book full of information and indispensable to anyone involved in communicating ideas through typographic means”.–Milton Glaser, president, Milton Glaser, Inc”. TYPE & LAYOUT should be required reading before students are allowed to touch a computer”.–Dennis G. Martin, Ph.D., Professor of Communications, Brigham Young University…. More >>

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Book Typography

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This book examines the essential factors of a well designed book – attractive and suitable type, close spacing of words, reader-friendly format – and considers how maximum-quality typography (of books or of any text intended for continuous reading), consonant with traditional standards, can be achieved by users of present-day technology. Word-division, letter-space, punctuation, different styles of footnotes and endnotes, use of symbols and special characters, the n… More >>

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