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Modern typography in Britain: graphic design, politics, and society

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Editor: Paul Stiff
Publisher: Hyphen Press
Publication: 2009, First Edition
Binding: Softcover, section sewn
Pages: 216
Size: 210 x 295
Text: English

(Publishers review) 'This remarkable volume is a collection of eleven essays and shorter articles which for the first time provide rich contexts – social, cultural, and political – for graphic design in Britain. Reaching from the Second World War to the early 1970s, they fizz with provocative interconnections: between print culture, photojournalism and publishing, the London of émigrés, political meetings and demonstrations, cultural cafés and art schools. From these disparate milieux emerged new ideas about designing: configuring and picturing the world of facts and processes, shaping them for understanding, learning, and action. Presented here are documents of the nation’s life in war, its reconstruction through the passages from scarcity to plenty, the seeds of later fragmentation, always fertile with multiple intersections between biography and history.'

Condition: Very Good. All titles are used and show shelf ware consistent with age. Light rubbing, creasing, tanning to cover. Light tanning to outer edges of interior pages.

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