# David Jury > David Jury is an author, editor, and designer of books concerning typography, printing and graphic design: he is currently editor of Parenthesis, the journal of the Fine Press Book Association (UK/European edition) and proprietor of the Fox Ash Press. David Jury is a British author, editor, typographer and designer based in Essex, England. He is proprietor of the Fox Ash Press, which designs and letterpress-prints limited edition books, and editor and designer of Parenthesis, the journal of the Fine Press Book Association. From 1996 to 2006 he edited TypoGraphic, the journal of the International Society of Typographic Designers (ISTD). This site catalogues his books, journals, catalogues and exhibitions, and publishes his essays on typography, printing and design history. Every page has a Markdown version at the same address ending in `.md` (for example https://davidjury.com/index.md). The complete text of every essay and project is in [llms-full.txt](https://davidjury.com/llms-full.txt). Enquiries: jury.david@gmail.com ## Sections - [books various publishers](https://davidjury.com/books-various-publishers.md): David Jury is an author, editor, and designer of books concerning typography, printing and graphic design. He is also a lecturer in Typographic Enquiry on the MA Typography course at Cambridge School of Art. - [books Fox Ash Press](https://davidjury.com/books-fox-ash-press.md): David Jury is proprietor of the Fox Ash Press, designing and letterpress printing limited edition books from his studio. These books are in international collections including the Tate Gallery, Yale Centre for British Art, the British… - [journals](https://davidjury.com/journals-posters.md): Between 1996 and 2006 David Jury was editor of TypoGraphic, the journal of the International Society of Typographic Designers and since 2021 editor and designer of Parenthesis, the journal of the Fine Press Book Association. - [catalogues](https://davidjury.com/catalogues.md): In 2008 Colchester School of Art took over the running of the Minories Galleries. This is a contemporary art gallery which was open to the public and housed the Colchester School of Art's Postgraduate programmes. David Jury designed all… - [exhibitions](https://davidjury.com/exhibitions.md): in 2017 Firstsite offered Ed Gold, internationally renowned photographer, a retrospective and I was commissioned to design and curate it. The huge scale of the building provided the opportunity to emphasise the heroic nature of Ed's… - [writings etc](https://davidjury.com/writings.md): essays etc ## Essays - [Dubious liaisons: archiving print and digital media](https://davidjury.com/writings/dubious-liaisons-archiving-print-and-digital-media.md) (General): This was written for Parenthesis. By this time (since 2022) I was also its editor and had this article on my desk for several issues waiting for a space to… - [Gentlemen and players](https://davidjury.com/writings/gentlemen-and-players.md) (Typography and Designing): Written for Parenthesis 2021. My original title was 'A Typographer in Post-war Britain'. Thankfully, editor Sebastian Carter changed it. Coincidentally, John… - [Type case illuminations](https://davidjury.com/writings/type-case-illuminations.md): Crispin and Jan Elsted, proprietors of the Barbarian Press in Canada, purchased and shipped a large and important collection of Curwen Press letterpress border… - [The typist and her typing manual](https://davidjury.com/writings/the-typist-and-her-typing-manual.md) (General): The conventions of business correspondence began to seep into mainstream typography during the early years of the twentieth century. Believe it or not, the use… - [The evolution of the typographer described in four manuals:](https://davidjury.com/writings/the-evolution-of-the-typographer-described-in-four-manuals.md) (Typography and Designing): This was written for Baseline but in that version I had Vincent Steer's Printing Design and Layout, published in 1934, as the fourth manual. It was Hans Dieter… - [The chapbook legacy](https://davidjury.com/writings/the-chapbook-legacy.md) (Typography and Designing): My interest in chapbooks was sparked by finding a book published by Andrew White Tuer (Field & Tuer Press) of Joseph Crawhall's ingenious Izaak Walton: His… - [Shifting power](https://davidjury.com/writings/shifting-power.md) (Educating): This was written for Grafik (formerly Graphics International) in response to political policies that were causing enormous damage to the higher education… - [Rule-bending printers](https://davidjury.com/writings/rule-bending-printers.md) (Typography and Designing): I have huge sympathy for the artistic printers in their attempt to present themselves as designers, as well as a printers. Advertising agencies were, by the… - [Romek Marber at the Minories](https://davidjury.com/writings/romek-marber-at-the-minories.md) (Miniture Monographs): This was written at Orna Frommer-Dawson request for inclusion in the website she was designing for Romek in 2020. John Ellis, a dear colleague in the graphic… - [Publishing in the UK during the Second World War](https://davidjury.com/writings/publishing-in-the-uk-during-the-second-world-war.md) (Typography and Printing): It used to be said that publishing always flourished during a war; time can weigh heavily on people who have either been uprooted from, or confined to, their… - [Printing the inimitable](https://davidjury.com/writings/printing-the-inimitable.md) (Typography and Designing): In 1818, a public competition was organised to discover a practical way of defeating the forgery of printed money, a major concern in England at that time.… - [A printer](https://davidjury.com/writings/a-printer.md) (Typography and Printing): The first skill a printing apprentice was taught on entering the composing room was how to handle metal type. In particular, the manner of its transfer from… - [Peter Rutledge Koch: Surrealist cowboy and the Codex Foundation](https://davidjury.com/writings/peter-rutledge-koch-surrealist-cowboy-and-the-codex-foundation.md) (Miniture Monographs): Written for Parenthesis, 2015, following Peter Koch receiving (on behalf of the Codex Foundation) the APHA Institutional Achievement Award at the Grolier Club,… - [Networking before the Internet: Samizdat](https://davidjury.com/writings/networking-before-the-internet-samizdat.md) (General): I was talking to my friend Will Hill at Cambridge School of Art about the 1960s phenomenon of writers surreptitiously using new office technologies to become… - [J H Mason, typography, and the artschool ethos](https://davidjury.com/writings/j-h-mason-typography-and-the-artschool-ethos.md) (Educating): When I offered this article to the then-incumbent editor of TypoGraphic he gave it back saying it was too long and too serious (he probably meant 'boring' and… - [In place of the heavy rule and sullen grot](https://davidjury.com/writings/in-place-of-the-heavy-rule-and-sullen-grot.md) (Typography and Printing): This article was written during or shortly after the extended essay I wrote for Bordering on the Sublime, Jan and Crispin's Barbarian Press book, a magnificent… - [Fine Press: the amateur, the artist, and the printer](https://davidjury.com/writings/fine-press-the-amateur-the-artist-and-the-printer.md) (Typography and Printing): Another attempt to establish what fine press is, what it means, and how (or how little) it has changed. This essay, as with most of my writing, is an attempt… - [Craft: before, during and after graphic design](https://davidjury.com/writings/craft-before-during-and-after-graphic-design.md) (Typography and Designing): The training of the printer in the black art was always a secretive activity, but one largely born out of commercial imperative and protection of jobs rather… - [Corresponding to form: early business stationery](https://davidjury.com/writings/corresponding-to-form-early-business-stationery.md) (Typography and Printing): By the seventeenth century, the capitalisation of the world’s trade was already conducted on a large scale and its hub was moving from Amsterdam to London.… - [A typographer in post-war Britain](https://davidjury.com/writings/a-typographer-in-post-war-britain.md) (Typography and Designing): In 1946 John Lewis, reflecting on his experience as an occasional mural painter and meagre freelance illustrator before the War, concluded ‘it did not seem… - [Kelvyn Smith: Against the Grain](https://davidjury.com/writings/against-the-grain.md) (Miniture Monographs): This article was commissioned by Hans Dieter Reichert for Baseline. I first heard of Kelvyn from Laura Jackson, a teaching colleague at Colchester Institute… ## Exhibitions - [Ed Gold: Other Worlds](https://davidjury.com/exhibitions/ed-gold-other-worlds-exhibition.md): Titled Ed Gold: Other Worlds, the presentation is made up a hundred photographs taken over a period spanning almost thirty years. These have been selected from… ## Catalogues - [Colchester Arts Society](https://davidjury.com/catalogues/colchester-arts-society.md): The Minories, located in Colchester's St Botolph Quarter, was bought In 1956 by the Victor Batte-Lay Trust and converted into a gallery. The Trust built a… - [Graphic Art and the Art of Illustration](https://davidjury.com/catalogues/graphic-art-and-the-art-of-illustration.md): This exhibition, co-curated by Evelyn Bell, (curator of the Victor Batte-Lay Trust Collection) and Alan Smith (Director of The Minories) was based around the… - [Ian Hay: A Life Drawing](https://davidjury.com/catalogues/ian-hay-a-life-drawing.md): Ian Hay had been a student at Colchester School of Art in the 1950s and then in the painting school at the Royal College of Art in the 1960s – just as Pop Art… - [MA Student Exhibition](https://davidjury.com/catalogues/ma-student-exhibition.md): Students of the three MA courses, each with their own permanent studio space on the first floor, also had the privilege of exhibiting their work in the gallery… - [Looking for the Photograph](https://davidjury.com/catalogues/looking-for-the-photograph.md): This exhibition, curated by Duncan Wooldridge, was mounted to celebrate the work of the photographers teaching on the newly-formed BA Photography course at the… - [Underground Maps Unravelled](https://davidjury.com/catalogues/underground-maps-uravelled-xxplorations-in-information-design.md): Maxwell Robert became a lecturer in psychology at the University of Essex in 1993. His research interests include reasoning and intelligence, and which more… ## Journals - [Parenthesis](https://davidjury.com/journals-posters/parenthesis.md): The first issue of Parenthesis was released in May 1998, the same year the FPBA was established. There are two issues per year, uniquely, one is edited and… - [Positive Futures Issue No 1](https://davidjury.com/journals-posters/positive-futures-issue-no-1.md): Ed Gold describes his journal Positive Futures as ‘celebrating the ingenuity and diversity of people who have chosen to live their own independent and… - [Typographic 65](https://davidjury.com/journals-posters/typographic-65.md): I was editor of TypoGraphic for ten years and it was only with the last issue that allowed myself to design it. In fact, because the theme was 'Advertising and… - [TypoGraphic](https://davidjury.com/journals-posters/typographic.md): Designers: 49 Phil Baines; 50 Gilmar Wendt; 51 Cartlidge Levene; 52 Nick Bell; 54 Struktur Design; 55 Attik; 56 Corps 3 op twee; 57 North; 58 The Designers… - [The ISTD Newsletter](https://davidjury.com/journals-posters/the-istd-newsletter.md): TypoGraphic News was the newsletter of the ISTD. When I moved to Colchester I met Les Curtis, who was editor of the TypoGraphic News. Les had kept the… ## Books Fox Ash Press - [In Darkest England](https://davidjury.com/books-fox-ash-press/in-darkest-england.md): In Darkest England compromises of twenty-three sheets in a clamshell box. Part one is an interview with Humphrey Spender about his role as photographer working… - [A Desert Adventure](https://davidjury.com/books-fox-ash-press/a-desert-adventure.md): In 1934, whilst on a commissioned photographic visit to Morocco, Humphrey Spender kept an intimate diary from which, on his return, he produced a censored… - [The Printer’s Return to Morocco](https://davidjury.com/books-fox-ash-press/the-printers-return-to-morocco-2.md): This is the second version of Morocco (intimated by its title) and is much closer to the original concept than the first simpler version. (See… - [Paris Perpendicular](https://davidjury.com/books-fox-ash-press/paris-perpendicular-2.md): Working in close collaboration with Virginie Litzler, Paris Perpendicular grew out of a shared interest in extending inherent pictorial narrative beyond their… - [This Earthen Vessel](https://davidjury.com/books-fox-ash-press/this-earthen-vessel-2.md): A collaborative project with artist, writer and poet Pete Kennedy. Six sheets held loosely by a wrap-around cover. Each sheet contains a poem made up of two… - [Welsh Patagonia](https://davidjury.com/books-fox-ash-press/welsh-patagonia-2.md): In June 2006 photographer Ed Gold planned to spend one month in Gaiman, Patagonia to photograph, record and collate as much information as he could about the… - [P D Kennedy Is From Brunlea](https://davidjury.com/books-fox-ash-press/p-d-kennedy-is-from-brunlea.md): The text is written in the form of a journal, telling of Kennedy’s‘great escape’ from Brunlea in 1971 and documents in detail the next three frugal years at… ## Books Various Publishers - [About Face: Reviving the Rules of Typography](https://davidjury.com/books-various-publishers/about-face-reviving-the-rules-of-typography.md): The basic rules of typography are introduced within the context of current electronic information technology, which has made some rules obsolete. However,… - [What is Typography?](https://davidjury.com/books-various-publishers/what-is-typography.md): An appraisal of typography now that digital technology enables everyone to call themselves ‘a typographer’. - [Mid-century Type: Typography, Graphics, Designers](https://davidjury.com/books-various-publishers/mid-century-type-typography-graphics-designers.md): Explores how, in the middle decades of the last century, the typographer became an independent, influential contributor to a fast-developing technological… - [Book Art Object](https://davidjury.com/books-various-publishers/book-art-object.md): The art of the book and the book as art. A catalogue of work exhibited and illustrated lectures presented at the Codex book fair and symposium held in Berkeley… - [Book Art Object 2](https://davidjury.com/books-various-publishers/book-art-object-2.md): The success of Book Art Object (and the bi-annual Codex symposium and book fair) made a follow-up catalogue inevitable. Book Art Object 2, displays all… - [Reinventing Print](https://davidjury.com/books-various-publishers/reinventing-print.md): Reinventing Print maps the rise of digital technology and examining the infinite possibilities it offers and the profound cultural and technical influence it… - [Graphic Design Before Graphic Designers](https://davidjury.com/books-various-publishers/graphic-design-before-graphic-designers.md): This book traces attempts by the jobbing printer to gain recognition for his adaptation of tradition and craftsmanship to serve the needs of a growing and… - [Letterpress: The Allure of the Handmade](https://davidjury.com/books-various-publishers/letterpress-the-allure-of-the-handmade.md): What I hear I forget What I see I remember What I do I understand - [TypoGraphic Writing](https://davidjury.com/books-various-publishers/typographic-writing.md): Selected writings from the first thirty years of the ISTD journal, TypoGraphic, 1971 to 2001. Material is organised into four areas: Working Practice,… - [New Typographic Design](https://davidjury.com/books-various-publishers/new-typographic-design.md): A linked series of essays on typographic purpose and outcome. The introduction, Fads, Freaks and Fancies, outlines 19th century manifestations of graphic… - [Little Book of Typographic Ornament](https://davidjury.com/books-various-publishers/little-book-of-typographic-ornament.md): Sourced from specimen books dating from 1700 onwards, this collection of typographic ornamentation used by printers ranges from the mid-16th to the beginning… - [Type Designers of the Twentieth Century](https://davidjury.com/books-various-publishers/type-designers-of-the-twentieth-century.md): The appearance of a letterform printed on the surface of a sheet of paper is the conclusion of an often long and convoluted process, with tensions between art,… ## Optional - [Full text of all essays and projects](https://davidjury.com/llms-full.txt) - [RSS feed of essays](https://davidjury.com/feed.xml) - [XML sitemap](https://davidjury.com/sitemap.xml)