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Graphic designers, typophiles, and students of the Modern Movement will welcome the reissue of this important source book. Since it was first published in 1969, it has served as the standard guide to the impact of twentieth century avant-garde movements on graphic design and typography. This revised edition has a more compact format and incorporates new materials and illustrations.Spencer's substantial introduction examines the origins and artifacts of the revolution in graphic design and carefully disentangles the respective influences of Futurism, Dadaism, De Stijl, Suprematism, Constructivism, and the Bauhaus. Spencer traces the interactions of the key personalities associated with these movements and presents concise biographical sketches of them.An album of color reproductions displays characteristic examples of the most important innovators' work, representing such genres as posters, magazine covers, letterheads, advertisements, and poems.Herbert Spencer is Professor of Graphic Arts at the Royal College of Art, London.
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"Nothing could be more useful than this book to focus on all the brilliant personalities that contributed to the creation of a new language in typography.... This book is a must for students of design, as it is for us professionals to evaluate the origins of modern typography before we take the next step."- Massimo Vignelli
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Herbert Spencer (1924-2002) was a typographer, graphic designer, teacher of graphic design, and Art Director at Lund Humphries from 1969 to 1988. He was Editor of the seminal journal Typographica (1949 to 1967) and of The Penrose Annual (1964 to 1973). In addition to Pioneers of Modern Typography, his publications included The Visible Word (the result of his research at the RCA into legibility) and The Liberated Page (an anthology of articles drawn from Typographica).
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- PublisherLund Humphries Publishers Ltd
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0853314489
- ISBN 13 9780853314486
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number2
- Number of pages160
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