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The title page from the 1964 "Alphabet", an international annual of letterforms, a magnificent production put together by the highly regarded ICI 'house' printers, the Birmingham based Kynoch Press. It was edited by R S Hutchings and published for them by James Moran and was the only volume of an intended series issued. The right page folds out to reveal the full alphabet. The main titling is Bodoni I think.
A rather period childrens picture book telling the story of the manufacturing and utility of town gas and issued by the British Gas Council in 1947, a few months before the industry was Nationalised by the postwar Labour Government. By way of text, line drawings and twelve colour plates the history of 'fire' and the town gas industry is shown to Susan and Micahel by Mr Therm. Mr Therm was the gas industry's 'mascot' for many years; developed by artist and designer Eric Fraser in the early 1930s for the London Gas Light & Coke Company he was rapidly adopted for use across the whole industry. The language is, of course, very much of its time, including the furious fairy of the flames, Mr Therm himself!
The premise in the book is that gas is cleaner and more convienient when seen against the use of coal for domestic purposes and indeed, the production of town gas although an often messy business itself made better use of coal as a fuel and as a source of numerous by-products and chemical derivatives. These were after all the days before the whole issue of carbon release was fully understood and before the UK's coal gas production was phased out with the introduction of Natural Gas.
The book although produced by the Gas Council was designed and produced by no less than Adprint Ltd for A N Holden & Co Ltd, London & Birmingham. It was printed by Tapp and Toothill of Leeds and London.
One of the long lived Shell Guides, produced by the petrol and oil giant for many years, and this covering London is one of the 'Junior Guides'. Published in 1965 it is an idosyncratic look at the capital city for children and was compliled by Isobel Barnett and illustrated by the incomparable Ronald Searle. The latter is probably why both visitors and inhabitants bear more than a passing relationship to St. Custard's and St. Trinians! The book is designed by Bruce Robertson (d.2014) who went on to found the design partnership "Diagram".
An interesting one this as this bold and quite powerful cover presaged what were to be major changes in the identity of British Railways in the next two years. This 'principal' services timetable was issued in conjuntion with the regional timetables that had been a feature of BR since nationalisation in 1948. For 'national' coverage one went to Bradshaw's Guide, a feature of rail travel almost since it was invented in the 1830s. This 'main line' timetable was amongst the first to be issued in the new larger format although it still carries the heraldic symbol of the British Railways Board and uses Gill Sans. The new "British Rail" title and logo would come into use in 1964/5 and finally in the latter year the 24 hour clock became standard. Nevertheless this timetable has many of the hallmarks of things to come. One oddity is that the title page note it is published by the British Transport Commission - an organisation technically abolished on 1 January 1963, six months before this was produced. It was printed at the Baynard Press, Sanders Phillips, in London.
Jost Hochuli
Typografisches Allerlei – und allerlei anderes (mässig gepfeffert)
Typotron Heft 15
St. Gallen. 1997
150×240mm
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
- John Lubbock
A fine title page to the 1948 Golden Cockerel Press edition of the Homeric hymn to Aphrodite, translated by F L Lucas and with plates by Mark Severin.
Seen forming part of an article in “The Fleuron Number V” edited by Stanley Morison and published by the Cambridge University Press in 1924. The article is about the work of Karl Klingspor by Julius Rodenberg, Leipzig, and was translated by Anna Simons. This two page example is from the 1924 printing of Gerhard (Gottlob Eusebius Fischer) “Liebes ABC” from 1820, the edition designed by Hans Bohn and printed using Tiemann Antiqua.
Karl Klingspor (1868 - 1950) was one of the two brothers who took over their father’s typefoundry in Offenbach am Main and that was renamed Schriftgiesserei Gbr. Klingspor in 1906. He was a noted type designer and typographer who, commissioning other important designers, helped the concern become one of the most noteworthy amongst German typefounders.
Utilizing the same shape as found on the book's slipcase, various surprising statistics are conveyed to the reader in an interactive, interesting manner. The forms were hand-cut from the pages with an x-acto knife.
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Unbeknownst to many, Los Angeles has served as one of the most important oil provinces on the planet. From the initial discoveries near the turn of the 20th century, through the roaring 1920s, and into the present, oil has often guided and defined the development of the city. What's interesting, however, is that this fact is so often eclipsed by Los Angeles' well-documented histories as a center of film, entertainment, boosterism and agriculture. Forgetting Oildorado excavates the city's rich oil history, examines the slow decline of the local industry, and uncovers many of the active oil fields that lie hidden in plain sight, in the very midst of this teeming city.
This 120-page book includes text based upon Frank Ruchala Jr.'s monumental examination of Los Angeles' oil history, oiLA, with historical imagery sourced from Early California Oil by Kenny Franks and Paul Lambert. All other photography was shot by me, using a combination of Digital SLR, 35mm SLR, Medium Format Holga, and 35mm Lomo cameras.
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ICI produced some wonderful technical publications - and this is no exception - a bold pattern paper cover based on a ladle and furnace, with a neat titling. Oddly, given that ICI owned the very fine Kynoch Press, this is printed at Curwen Press in Plaistow.
From the 1962 book, Books! by Murray McCain and illustrated & designed by John Alcorn who once worked at Push Pin Studios in the late 1950s.
Blogged at letterology.blogspot.com/2011/08/books-and-more.html
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Just one among the thousands of books George Stuart has donated to the Rare Book collection at Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Book cover for The American Printer, 1882, by Thomas MacKeller
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Frank Dinger
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CD Packaging for Juno winning Jazz Musician Chris Tarry.
Agency: Rethink Canada
Design: Jeff Harrison
Illustration: Kim Ridgewell
Producer: Kerry Bhangu
Accounts: Daylan Wong
Printing: Metropolitan Fine Printers
The title page from the 1964 "Alphabet", an international annual of letterforms, a magnificent production put together by the highly regarded ICI 'house' printers, the Birmingham based Kynoch Press. It was edited by R S Hutchings and published for them by James Moran and was the only volume of an intended series issued. The right page folds out to reveal the full alphabet.
From the 1962 book, Books! by Murray McCain and illustrated & designed by John Alcorn who once worked at Push Pin Studios in the late 1950s.
Blogged at letterology.blogspot.com/2011/08/books-and-more.html
This is a showcase portfolio of Gerard Tomko's Wedding Photography
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Dust jacket for book by Yugoslavian writer and dissenter Mihajlo Mihajlov. His book Moscow Summer is critical of the Soviet Union. In 1966 he was arrested and sentenced to jail by the Soviet authorities. The book has a foreword by Myron Kolatch, the editor of the New Leader, a publication that Lubalin designed (p.67). The design of Moscow Summer relies on the mon umental power of a block of tightly spaced typography redolent of prison bars, and in its utilization of an unusually vibrant colour palette. Client: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Date: 1965. www.uniteditions.com