title:
New Typographic Design
author: David Jury
compiler and designer: Roger Fawcett-Tang
publisher: Laurence King, London
date: 2007
A linked series of essays on typographic purpose and outcome. The introduction, Fads, Freaks and Fancies, outlines 19th century manifestations of graphic design, a theme expanded upon in Graphic Design before Graphic Designers.
The four other essays are: The Pleasure of Silence, The Pleasure of Noise, The Pursuit of Chaos and the Pursuit of Order.
An appraisal of typography now that digital technology enables everyone to call themselves ‘a typographer’
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