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Robin Kinross
Robin Kinross (born 1949) is an author and publisher on the topic of visual communication and typography. His most significant work is ''Modern Typography.'' He is a proprietor of Hyphen Press, which published books on design and typography from 1980 to 2017. Kinross did undergraduate and graduate studies at the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication at the University of Reading. His graduate work from 1979 was titled ''Otto Neurath's contribution to visual communication 1925-45: the history, graphic language and theory of Isotype'', but stayed unpublished. He moved to London in 1982. In the 1980s he contributed content to publications such as ''Blueprint'', '' Baseline'' and '' Eye''. Kinross started Hyphen Press in 1980. ''Modern Typography'' was published in 1992. Beginning in the 1990s, Hyphen produced about "two to four publications a year". Important publications by Hyphen include Christopher Burke's ''Paul Renner'' and Fred Smeijers' ''Counterpunch''. Hyphen's las ...
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Hyphen Press
Hyphen Press is a London publisher of books on design and typography. Hyphen Press was founded by Robin Kinross in 1980, but has published nearly all of its books beginning in the 1990s. Hyphen Press has produced about thirty books on a diverse range of topics, but most of its most important publications are devoted to the topic of typography. These include Christopher Burke's ''Paul Renner'', 1998; Robin Kinross's ''Anthony Froshaug: Typography & Texts'', 2000; Harry Carter's ''A View of Early Typography'', 2002; ''Designing Books'', 2003, by Jost Hochuli and Robin Kinross; Peter Burnhill's ''Type Spaces'', 2003; Gerrit Noordzij's ''The Stroke: Theory of Writing'', 2005; and Robin Kinross's ''Modern Typography'', 2010. Princeton Architectural Press Princeton Architectural Press is a small press publisher, specializing in books on architecture, design, photography, landscape, and visual culture, with over 1,000 titles on its backlist. In 2013, it added a line of stationery ...
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University Of Reading
The University of Reading is a public university in Reading, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1892 as University College, Reading, a University of Oxford extension college. The institution received the power to grant its own degrees in 1926 by royal charter from King George V and was the only university to receive such a charter between the two world wars. The university is usually categorised as a red brick university, reflecting its original foundation in the 19th century. Reading has four major campuses. In the United Kingdom, the campuses on London Road and Whiteknights are based in the town of Reading itself, and Greenlands is based on the banks of the River Thames in Buckinghamshire. It also has a campus in Iskandar Puteri, Malaysia. The university has been arranged into 16 academic schools since 2016. The annual income of the institution for 2016–17 was £275.3 million of which £35.4 million was from research grants and contracts, with an expenditur ...
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Blueprint (architecture Magazine)
''Blueprint'' was an architecture and design magazine that has been published in the UK between 1983 and 2020. It offered a mix of criticism, news and feature writing on design and architecture, directed at professionals and non-professionals alike. Blueprint takes architecture and design as its starting point and brings these thing into sharp focus via context, comment and analysis. Architecture and design do not exist in a vacuum. - Johnny Tucker, former ''Blueprint'' editor The magazine took a parallel approach to the different design disciplines, reflecting a belief that fashion, product, furniture and architectural design can share ideas. History ''Blueprint'' was first published in October 1983 by Peter Murray and Deyan Sudjic. It was launched and funded by major UK design world figures including Terence Conran, Marcello Minale, Brian Tattersfield, and Richard Rogers.
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Baseline (magazine)
''Baseline'' magazine () is a magazine devoted to typography, book arts and graphic design (not to be confused with the information technology magazine of the same name that is published by QuinStreet). History Since ''Baseline 19'', which appeared in 1995, ''Baseline'' has been published by Bradbourne Publishing, co-edited by Mike Daines and Hans Dieter Reichert and art-directed by HDR Visual Communication. It is characterized by its large format, sumptuous art and double cover. It has won several major international design awards in the USA, Europe and Japan. The magazine is featured in several academic publications (i.e. Philip Megg's ''History of Graphic design'' and ''Idea'' magazine). Before issue 19, publishers, editors, magazine dimensions and quality varied as the magazine evolved from a small format booklet that first appeared in 1979. Early editors included Mike Daines (''Baselines 1–3''), Tony Bisley (''Baseline 4''), Geoffrey Lawrence (''Baseline 5'') and Erik ...
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Eye (magazine)
''Eye'' magazine is a quarterly print magazine on graphic design and visual culture. History First published in London in 1990, ''Eye'' was founded by Rick Poynor, a prolific writer on graphic design and visual communication. Poynor edited the first twenty-four issues (1990–1997). Max Bruinsma was the second editor, editing issues 25–32 (1997–1999), before its current editor John L. Walters took over in 1999. Stephen Coates was art director for issues 1–26, Nick Bell was art director from issues 27–57, and Simon Esterson has been art director since issue 58. Frequent contributors include Phil Baines, Steven Heller, John-Patrick Hartnett, Richard Hollis, Paul Kahn, Robin Kinross, Jan Middendorp, J. Abbott Miller, John O'Reilly, Rick Poynor, Elizabeth Resnick, Alice Twemlow, Kerry William Purcell, Steve Rigley, Adrian Shaughnessy, David Thompson, Christopher Wilson, Steve Hare and many others. Recent issues have included photographs by Philip Sayer, Maria Spann an ...
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Paul Renner
Paul Friedrich August Renner (9 August 1878 – 25 April 1956) was a German typeface designer, author, and founder of the Master School for Germany's Printers in Munich. In 1927, he designed the Futura typeface, which became one of the most successful and most-used types of the 20th century. Renner was born in Wernigerode, and died in Hödingen. He had a strict Protestant upbringing, being educated in a 19th-century Gymnasium. He was brought up to have a sense of leadership, duty and responsibility. He disliked abstract art and many forms of modern culture, such as jazz, cinema, and dancing. But equally, he admired the functionalist strain in modernism. Thus, Renner can be seen as a bridge between the traditional (19th century) and the modern (20th century). He attempted to fuse the Gothic and the roman typefaces. Renner was a prominent member of the Deutscher Werkbund (German Work Federation). Two of his major texts are ''Typografie als Kunst'' (Typography as Art) and '' ...
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Matthew Carter
Matthew Carter (born 1 October 1937) is a British type designer.Christophe_Plantin.html" ;"title="y Christophe Plantin">y Christophe Plantin' in typography's golden age was in perfect condition (some muddle aside) [along with] Plantin's accounts and inventories which names the cutters of his types." Carter also advised IBM as an independent consultant in the 1980s. Bitstream In 1981, Carter and his colleague Mike Parker created Bitstream Inc. This digital type foundry was one of the largest suppliers of type before its acquisition by Monotype in 2012. The company however did receive extensive criticism for its strategy of cheaply offering digitisations of pre-existing typefaces that it had not designed, often under alternative names (for example, Times New Roman as 'Dutch 801'). While technically not illegal, this selling of large numbers of typefaces on CD would be described by font designer John Hudson as "one of the worst instances of piracy in the history of type". In h ...
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Kenneth Frampton
Kenneth Brian Frampton (born 20 November 1930) is a British architect, critic and historian. He is the Ware Professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University, New York. He has been a permanent resident of the United States since the mid-1980s. Frampton is regarded as one of the world's leading historians of modernist architecture. Biography Frampton studied architecture at Guildford School of Art and the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London. Subsequently, he worked in Israel, with Middlesex County Council and Douglas Stephen and Partners (1961–66) in London, during which time he was also a visiting tutor at the Royal College of Art (1961–64), tutor at the Architectural Association (1961–63) and technical editor of the journal ''Architectural Design'' (''AD'') (1962–65). While working for Douglas Stephen and Partners he designed in 1960-62 the Corringham Building, an 8-story block of fla ...
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Rick Poynor
Rick Poynor is a British writer on design, graphic design, typography, and visual culture. Career He began as a general visual arts journalist, working on ''Blueprint'' magazine in London. After founding Eye (magazine), ''Eye'' magazine, which he edited from 1990 to 1997, he focused increasingly on visual communication. He is writer-at-large and columnist of ''Eye'', and a contributing editor and columnist of Print (magazine), ''Print'' magazine. In 1999, Poynor was a co-ordinator of the First Things First 2000 manifesto initiated by ''Adbusters''. In 2003, he co-founded Design Observer, a weblog for design writing and discussion, with William Drenttel, Jessica Helfand, and Michael Bierut. He wrote for the site until 2005. He was a visiting professor at the Royal College of Art, London from 1994 to 1999 and returned to the RCA in 2006 as a research fellow. He also taught at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. In 2004, Poynor curated the exhibition, ''Communicate: Independent Br ...
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Stuart Bailey
Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey (previously Stuart Bailey; born 1973) is a British graphic designer, writer and editor. In 2000 he co-founded the bi-annual arts journal ''Dot Dot Dot'' with Peter Bil'ak. In 2006 he began working with American graphic designer, writer and editor David Reinfurt under the pseudonym Dexter Sinister, which is also the name of their 'just-in-time workshop and occasional bookstore' on New York's Lower East Side. Reinfurt replaced Bil'ak as co-editor of ''Dot Dot Dot'' the same year; it continued under Bailey and Reinfurt's direction until the final, 20th issue in 2010 before being replaced by ''Bulletins of the Serving Library'', co-edited by Bailey and Reinfurt together with American artist and writer Angie Keefer until 2017. The journal has since morphed into a non-profit organization that variously serves as a publishing platform, a seminar room, a collection of framed objects, and an event space. ''The Serving Library Annual'' is co-edited by Stuart Bertolo ...
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Design Writers
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People Educated At Rugby School
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