Active Literature: Jan Tschichold and New Typography - Hardcover

Burke, Christopher

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0907259324 ISBN 13: 9780907259329

Publisher: Hyphen Press, 2008

Synopsis

Jan Tschichold (1902-1974) is considered by many to be the most influential typographer of the twentieth century. A leading voice of the modernist movement, Tschichold oversaw the redesign of the Penguin and Pelican paperbacks in the late 1940s and devised for them a standardized set of typographic rules. The classical type designs of his late career qualify him as perhaps the first typographic postmodernist. Active Literature, an in-depth study of Jan Tschichold's modernist period, is based on extensive archival research that uncovered a wealth of new photographs of his design work. Author Christopher Burke presents a full portrait of the designer's career and puts into context Tschichold's own account of his life and work.

About this title

About the Author:

Christopher Burke is a type designer, typographer, and the author of Paul Renner: The Art of Typography.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hyphen Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0907259324
• ISBN 13: 9780907259329
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336