Modern typography in Britain: graphic design, politics, and society (Typography papers 8)

 by Department of Typography, University of Reading  

This remarkable volume is a collection of eleven essays and shorter articles which for the first time provide rich contexts – social, cultural, and political – for graphic design in Britain. Reaching from the Second World War to the early 1970s, they fizz with provocative interconnections: between print culture, photojournalism and publishing, the London of émigrés, political meetings and demonstrations, cultural cafés and art schools. From these disparate milieux emerged new ideas about designing: configuring and picturing the world of facts and processes, shaping them for understanding, learning, and action. Presented here are documents of the nation’s life in war, its reconstruction through the passages from scarcity to plenty, the seeds of later fragmentation, always fertile with multiple intersections between biography and history.

Availability: in print
Published: 2009.09.03
Extent: 216 pp
Dimension: 297 × 210 mm
Illustrations:161 b&w + 89 colour pictures
Binding: sewn paperback
ISBN13 978-0-907259-39-8
Price: £25.00

http://www.hyphenpress.co.uk/books/978-0-907259-39-8

article posted 25 September 2009 and last updated 25 September 2009.