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The Tension Between Graphic and Type Design

Brian LaRossa: “Typefaces are elemental enough to be taken for granted without consequence. Even graphic designers, who wield the work of type designers with great care, can become lulled by exposure into forgetting the years of learning and effort that lurk behind every letter.”

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Riccardo Sartori

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Stephen Coles’ comment is also worth reading in full.

Greg Yerbury

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There was a large leap connecting an obscure US historical event to the contemporary international design scene with no in between links.


This phrase struck me has having more holes in it than  a piece of Swiss cheese
'The incident altered the trajectory of the type and publishing industries in the United States and complicated the relationship between them'
 

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