| May 31, 2008
Got $4,000 dollars to spare? That’s what it would cost to buy up the complete First Series of Typographica (1949-1959). Modernism 101 has posted this for purchase on Ebay.
“...Typographica was the brainchild of founder, editor, designer and renowned typographer Herbert Spencer, and had a brief life, totalling 32 issues published between 1949 and 1967. But its influence stretched and stretches far beyond its modest distribution and print runs of the time. For many graphic designers, Typographica is something of an obsession, to be collected if and when found, savored, and poured over for designs, and techniques not seen since....” (text quoted and photo accompanied the Ebay post by Modernism 101)
Thought I don’t have more than fifty bucks to spend on design collectibles, I'm glad I found this to remind myself that I should really read Typographica by Rick Poyner.
“...Typographica is unusual not just for the consistency of its editorial vision but for its longevity, since this was a magazine that made—and more surprisingly—was expected to make no profit for its gentlemanly owners. Only 25 when he started Typographica, Spencer edited it, designed it, wrote many of the articles and kept it going for 18 years, while pursuing a career as typographer, design consultant, author, editor and teacher that would establish him, at a precociously early age, as one of the more notable figures in British typography and graphic design...” —Rick Poyner
Link: other rare design books from Modernism 101
Tags: graphic design, journal, typography
Topic: Graphic Design
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