Main entry:

Kinross, Robin.

Title & Author:

Unjustified texts : perspectives on typography / Robin Kinross.

Publication:

London : Hyphen, 2002.

Description:

391 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.

Summary:

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 This selection of his writings, including some previously unpublished, brings his major themes into focus: the unsung virtues of editorial design and information design, the fate of Modernism in the twentieth century, and the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.

ISBN:

0907259170 (paperback)
9780907259176 (paperback)

Subject:

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

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 226339
Call No.: Z250 .K4 2002
Status: Available