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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.
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.
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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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
Designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith
For more information:
www.penguin.co.uk/static/cs/uk/0/pubsetpages/fscott_fitzg...
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Book cover for The American Printer, 1882, by Thomas MacKeller
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Tankakenkyu magazine March 2021
Book design: Suzuki Seiichi Design Office
Illustration: Mayako Nakamura
短歌研究社「短歌研究」2021年3月号 第78巻第3号
(2021/02//21)
アートディレクション＋デザイン：
鈴木成一デザイン室 (協力：生沼伸子)
イラストレーション：中村眞弥子
オフセット：近代美術
Tankakenkyu magazine February 2020
Book design: Suzuki Seiichi Design Office
Illustration: Mayako Nakamura
短歌研究社「短歌研究」2020年2月号 第77巻第2号
(2020/01//21)
アートディレクション＋デザイン：
鈴木成一デザイン室 (協力：生沼伸子)
イラストレーション：中村眞弥子
オフセット：近代美術
photographed by
Frank Dinger
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In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.
- Lord Buddha
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
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
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
VIEW THE BOOK: www.picturiapress.com/books/tomko.html
Tankakenkyu magazine March 2021
Book design: Suzuki Seiichi Design Office
Illustration: Mayako Nakamura
短歌研究社「短歌研究」2021年3月号 第78巻第3号
(2021/02//21)
アートディレクション＋デザイン：
鈴木成一デザイン室 (協力：生沼伸子)
イラストレーション：中村眞弥子
オフセット：近代美術
Tankakenkyu magazine April 2021
Book design: Suzuki Seiichi Design Office
Illustration: Mayako Nakamura
短歌研究社「短歌研究」2021年4月号 第78巻第4号
(2021/03//21)
アートディレクション＋デザイン：
鈴木成一デザイン室 (協力：生沼伸子)
イラストレーション：中村眞弥子
オフセット：近代美術
A fascinating post-war childrens book produced by Adprint for Collins and with a sequence of three 'strips' that turned over in differing sequences reveal various stories by author Hugh Gee. The 'illustrations' are a series of colour photographs by Zoltan Wegner and, not credited, I suspect the 'scenes' are by Amalia Serkin. The ensemble was put togther by Adprint, a fascinating publishing company whose roots were in the wave of German emigration to the UK in pre-war years. The driving forces behind Adprint were Walter Neurath and Wolfgang Foges. Two other important names connected with Adprint were Wilhelm Feuchtwang and Eva Neurath. In time Adprint's staff would help form Thames & Hudson, the publishers, as well as being behind the fascinating story of Isotype, the system of graphic communications.
This is research we are doing to determine the style & design of our upcoming book on business model innovation...
In the late 1930s the English City of Leicester's Publicity & Development Department, and the associated Municipal Information Office, produced a very fine set of publications that included an official guide, various leaflets and a series of handbooks such as this. They all exhibit a very modern and 'clean' approach to graphic design, layout and typography and still, nearly a century on, look very stylish. No designers are shown but I've often wondered if the City's noted School of Printing had a hand in their design.
This booklet, price 6d, discusses the various scenes and sights within the city as well as some of the surrounding countryside.
Jost Hochuli
Typografisches Allerlei – und allerlei anderes (mässig gepfeffert)
Typotron Heft 15
St. Gallen. 1997
150×240mm
Symingtons are a long established company traditionally based in Market Harborough and were pioneers in the production of dried and dehydrated convience foods such as soups. This is a mid 1930s recipe booklet issued by them to sell their wares!
Stillness is a collection of ambient photobooks, a year long series of experiments with ethereality, materiality and time. Eleven editions were published by FoAM on or near the new moons of 2015/2016 and a limited number of prints from each cycle were made. The final iteration is a collated selection of photographs from the series, with an introduction by Timothy Morton and epilogue by Maja Kuzmanovic, published in an edition of 300 by MER. Paper Kunsthalle and FoAM.
The book is available at the MER. webshop, or if you are further afield from Anagram Books or Perimeter