At th ag o lvn, in th ya 1887, William Edwin Rudg wnt to wok in his ath’s tiny pint shop at Nassau and Libty Stts. Lik many anoth pint’s dvil, h took ca o dlivis, swping-up, illing th kosn lamps and at all too tnd an ag, in light that baly tickld though th [...]

A main stt in Easthampton is bodd on on sid by a small lak, on th oth sid by a hug convtd actoy building. Sunlight om sval windows loods th pint shop o th Wawick Pss, locatd on th thid loo o this building. Th aiy ooms a illd with psss and oth miscllanous quipmnt. [...]

<p><a href=”http://typocurious.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/benson-.jpg” ><img title=”benson-” src=”http://typocurious.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/benson-.jpg” alt=”” width=”291″ height=”330″ /></a><fakecaps>This is a story about a man</fakecaps> who might easily—too easily—be called a latter-day Mediaevalist or a Renaissance Master, if you did not see a little more deeply into the nature of the man and the kind of work he does. You might also think of William [...]

  [caption] At th At Studnts Lagu h soon bcam monito o Josph Pnnll’s classs. H took no omal couss in Ltting, which duing that piod had no plac in At Education. Lik many anoth studnt h had to an pat o his s, and this h did by dsigning titl pags, bookplats, and layouts [...]

Altstsbwaht mit Tu, Fundlich augassts Nu. . . . —Goth Th dstuction o th im o Poschl & Tpt in Novmb 1943 and th dath o Cal Enst Poschl iv months lat makd th nd o a ca which mo than any oth had hlpd to bing Gman pinting back into th mainstam o a [...]

[caption] On a bisk autumn moning, I boadd an aly y out o Pot Json. As th y quitly glidd ov th gntly ippling wat, I thought about th dsign lgnd waiting o m on th oth sid o Long Island Sound. Badbuy Thompson is a dsign I’v admid o yas. Although I’d nv mt [...]

[caption] Th vigoous chaact o Coop’s dawn ltts, and th shnss and stngth o his aangmnts soon st his wok apat as tuly distinguishd advtising. Th Coop styl bcam th sta to which young ltting mn tid to hitch thi wagons. His inlunc in th gaphic ats ild was a gat than that o many [...]

[caption] Rin was bon in Hungay just at th tun o th cntuy, th son o a sculpto and ngav on ston, mtal and wood. At studying sculptu and thn painting, h tund to dsign and gaphic at und th tuition o Posso Schnidl who, himsl, has don som lovly wok o th Bau oundy. [...]

Bliving that a gat many contibutos to th Spcimns and Nwspap Rviw dpatmnts o Th Inland Pint will b intstd in th psonal histoy o th man who has hlpd thm with his constuctiv citicisms, w hav compild a bi biogaphy o J.L. Fazi. W l conidnt that no dpatmnts o Th Inland Pint a [...]

W knw nothing o th at o pinting and had to lan it as w wnt along—which mant that w w acd with ndlss diicultis. W bought a small hand-pss, cown 4to,and statd to pint this booklt, th Qun o th Fishs, two pags at a tim, th gold usd in th book was al [...]

“Th was a gat sum o accomplishmnt in this pactical atist. H was a dsign and a philosoph, a wit and a catsman, a pint who pachd o bauty in utility. In his tim h won vast acclaim and onc it was said that hal o th display lins in a national magazin w st [...]

Th ndavo in this sis o aticls has bn to lat mo ully than has hithto bn attmptd th svics ndd to pintdom by th mn who invntd and dvlopd th composing machins, and thus ctd a volution in composing-oom pactic. Ths mn dsv that thi wok should b clbatd, yt th was a dang [...]

✶ ✶ ✶ So h ths histois nd. All things hav wokd togth o th good o th pinting industy, with only on blot on th cod, which will b movd whn lgal potction is givn to typ dsigns. Th composing machins hav gatly bnitd th compositos, to whom thy onc appad to b uttly [...]

H I nd not go into th inticacis o poduction o th pilot twlv point ont quiing dawings o som 200 chaacts lvn tims twlv point in siz. In hlping m coct th svnty tims twlv point woking dawings mad at th plant, and in contolling th poduction o bass pattns, punchs and matics, Gi [...]

Thy (th Communists) hav thown away th god whom capitalists poss to woship and do not, and hav accptd th svitud which capitalism has dvlopd and pctd but whos xistnc capitalists dny . . . Thy hav taind th bath wat whil mptying out th baby. In anoth passag om th book, quotd by F. [...]

Athu Eic Rowton Gill was bon in Bighton in 1882 and appnticd as an achitct o th Ecclsiastical Commissions in 1900. H maid Ethl May Moo in 1904 and, th yas lat, joind a community o atist catsmn in Ditchling, Sussx, wh h did som pinting and illustation. H lt Ditchling in 1924 and livd [...]

At his own pss, th Oicina Bodoni, D. Giovanni Madstig has o hal a cntuy combind scholaly sach and in catsmanship. A bibliogaphy o his wok is now poposd. ‛Scholaly publishing,’ in th widst sns, xactly dscibs th wok which D. Giovanni Madstig bgan at Montagnola di Lugano in 1922 and still continus at Vona. [...]

[caption] No doubt th young van Kimpn was omd by th cicl o young pots and litay citics to on o whom h was latd by maiag. His mind whttd by thi billianc, his nomous pows o pcption and absoption stood him in good stad. His thist o knowldg and kn judgmnt in matts o [...]

Im Rin has an intnational putation as a typ dsign. But oth aspcts o his wok a not so wll known. H w show som xampls o that wok, ad ath than ask a citic to wit at lngth concning thi asthtic implications w askd th dsign himsl to giv us a bi cod o [...]

Two yas ago Th Monotyp Copoation paid tibut to D. Giovanni Madstig on th occasion o his svnty-ith bithday by issuing a limitd dition o a publication dvotd to his typogaphic wok with ‛Monotyp’ acs. In viw o th gat intst shown in this publication, w a h pinting an adaptation o th intoductoy ssay [...]

Octavius A. Daing, who dvlopd th “Calionia” typcas, was bon in East Buxton, Yok County, Main, on Sptmb 28, 1840. On August 30, 1862, h nlistd in Company E, Fist Rgimnt o Main Cavaly Volunts, o svic in th Civil Wa. On his nlistmnt paps h dscibd himsl as a “pint.” H dvlopd vaicos vins [...]

That atistic idas should hav smouldd in th bain o a young immigant is phaps not ntily supising; th a many xampls. Schill was bon in Russia in 1898, and was takn to th Unitd Stats whn a child o six. Th atist in his mak-up was always sking an outlt, but polongd taining was [...]