Christopher Burke design writer, Schule für Gestaltung St

Christopher Burke (born 1967) is a British writer on typography and a typeface designer. Burke worked at

Monotype Monotyping is a type of printmaking made by drawing or painting on a smooth, non-absorbent surface. The surface, or matrix (printing), matrix, was historically a copper etching plate, but in contemporary work it can vary from zinc or glass to ac ...

before earning a PhD in Typography & Graphic Communication at the

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 192 ...

in 1995. From 1996 to 2001 he taught at the University of Reading, where he planned and conceived the MA in typeface design. He is probably best known for his 1998 book on the typographer

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 ...

. Burke's typefaces include Celeste, Celeste Sans, Parable and Pragma.

Works

* Burke, Christopher, ''

: The Art of Typography'', Hyphen Press, 1998. * Burke, Christopher, ''Active Literature:

Jan Tschichold Jan Tschichold (born Johannes Tzschichhold, also known as Iwan Tschichold, or Ivan Tschichold; 2 April 1902 – 11 August 1974) was a German calligrapher, typographer and book designer. He played a significant role in the development of gra ...

and New Typography'', Hyphen Press, 2007. * Neurath, Otto (edited by Matthew Eve & Christopher Burke), ''From Hieroglyphics to Isotype: A Visual Autobiography'', Hyphen Press, 2010.

References

External links

Interview with Christopher Burke
online at

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 diver ...

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