New Typography - The First English Translation of the Revolutionary 1928 Document

"Probably the most important work on typography and graphic design in the twentieth century."--Carl Zahn, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

About the author

Jan Tschichold (1902-1974) worked as a typographer and teacher in Germany, Switzerland, and England. He became internationally known in 1925 with the publication of Elementary Typography, the first statement of constructivist graphic design principles. From 1946 to 1949 he lived in London and oversaw the typographic reform of Penguin Books. Ruari McLean, a Scottish typographer and scholar, is the author of Jan Tschichold: Typographer (1975). Robin Kinross is a London typographer and scholar and the author of Modern Typography: An Introduction (1993), Modern Typography: An Essay in Critical History and coauthor of Designing Books: Practice and Theory.

Product details

• Authors: Robin Kinross, Jan Tschichold
• Assisted by: Ruari McLean (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.10.1995
• EAN: 9780520071469
• ISBN: 978-0-520-07146-9
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Weimar & Now: German Cultural Criticism
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design