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Reviews idea 333 2009.3: Ruder typography Ruder philosopy Paul Shaw

This issue of Idea magazine is the definitive publication on Emil Ruder, the Basel typographer and teacher. It far surpasses The Road to Basel, Schmid’s earlier tribute to his teacher.

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Reviews book art object Paul Razzell

From the classical page designs of Petrarch Press to the bleeding-edge conceptual books of Julie Chen, book art object celebrates the work of some of the world’s most accomplished printers, designers, and book artists.

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Feature 1 Designing information for everyday life Paul Stiff

19th century maps, tables and other ‘information design’ ephemera form part of a graphic design research project at the University of Reading’s Department of Typography & Graphic Communication.

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Feature 2 The Return of Stencil Lettering: Had it Ever Gone? Steven Heller

The graphic quality of stencil typeface has always been popular within the industry. The Libauer’s Stenso Lettering Guide was in frequent use amongst American graphic designers in the 1940s.

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Feature 3 Control Print 4 Russell Warren-Fisher

Concluding part and summary of the four-part series into various aspects of digital print techniques, conducted by the Royal College of Art, England.

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Feature 4 Secret Assignment 1 Arnold Schwartzman OBE

The quest to hunt down authentic paraphernalia from the Cold War era and an eye for detail were the key of the successful concept to re-design the spy story covers for best selling author Len Deighton.

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Feature 5 Stone Cairns Mark Stewart Cassidy

Abandoned houses and living spaces on the Outer Western Isles and Orkney Isles, meaningful documented with a large format camera by Adrian Tyler.

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Feature 6 The story of the Armenian alphabet part 2:
recent developments
Carolyn Puzzovio

After the historical background in the last issue, we feature now, in part two, the contemporary developments in Armenian typeface design.

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Opinion The three writings Timothy Donaldson

The power of writing can be experienced in a variety of ways: recording movement, structuring words and creating a message via the structure of a language. All are interconnected and inseparable.

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Education A case for... the work of The Caseroom Press, Lincoln University Ian McLaren

Successful academic and professional art publisher worked in various academic environments and most recently in conjunction with graphic design students from the Lincoln University.

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