Paul Luna’s book, Typography: A Very Short Introduction, is published by Oxford University Press
The pleasures of pastiche


My note on the typography of Mad Men shows how difficult it is to reproduce the familiar items of the recent past accurately. So, for your edification, two pastiches produced as Christmas ephemeral items: wine lists based on designs by Jan Tschichold and Horace Hart. The Tschichold uses City and Bauer Bodoni, both reasonably accurate digital redrawings of metal designs. The Hart pastiche (based on a table in Notes on a century of typography at the University Press, Oxford, 1693–1794) uses the careful digitizations of Fell made by Igino Marini. If you think they could be improved, be sure to let me know.
Last chance to see …

Some links to follow
David Pearson’s own website is here. You can also see his new classic cover designs for White’s Books here.
This is James Morrison’s blog criticizing cover designs. And here is Steven Heller’s at Print magazine.
There’s a piece about Faber’s covers for their on-demand publishing in the current issue of Print.
This is James Morrison’s blog criticizing cover designs. And here is Steven Heller’s at Print magazine.
There’s a piece about Faber’s covers for their on-demand publishing in the current issue of Print.
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