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Emil Ruder’s Typographie is the timeless textbook from which generations of typographers and graphic designers have learned their fundamentals. Ruder, one of the great twentieth-century typographers, was a pioneer who abandoned the conventional rules of typography, replacing them with new rules that satisfied the requirements of his new typography. Now in its sixth printing, this [...]

Hofmann remains an exceptionally influential graphic-design teacher and poster artist. His methods were continued by such practitioners as Nelly Rudin, Karl Gerstner, Pierre Mendell, Klaus Oberer and Gérard Ifert. Born in 1920, Hofmann began teaching his own typographic principles at the Basel School of Design in 1947. He and his colleagues contributed to the development [...]

First published in 1928 in Germany and out of print for many years until this English publication, this text has been recognized as one of the most important statements of modern, twentieth-century typographical design. This curious and fascinating work ranges through theories of social criticism, art history, architecture, and the emerging importance of photography as [...]

Jan Tschichold (1902-1974) was one of the most outstanding and influential graphic artists and typographers of the twentieth century. Throughout his life he stood in the service of print and writing, first as a talented young calligrapher and poster designer, and later as a self-critical typographer. In his posters, he expresses the avant-garde ideas of [...]