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Tschichold: Titan of Typography

The Brillance of Jan Tschichold — Richard Hollis at The Guardian looks at the career of the man who perfected Penguin’s classic paperback:

Tschichold tidied up the horizontally banded covers of the standard Penguins and refined the Penguin emblem. Each of these adjustments hardly changed what we now think of as the “classic” Penguin designs, but the effect was to set new standards for book production in England.

The Guardian also has a slide show of Tschichold’s poster and paperback designs

If you’d like to know more about Tschichold, Thames and Hudson have just  published Jan Tschichold Master Typographer by Cees W. de Jong,  and Raincoast are distributing Hyphen’s Active Literature: Jan Tschichold and New Typography by Christopher Burke — published in March 2008 — here in Canada.