The Independent - London, April 2nd, 2002
MODERNISM IN typography owes much to Jan Tschichold, whose doctrine of asymmetric layout and sanserif type aimed to do for printed matter what the Bauhaus had done for design generally. Tschichold's work was first introduced to Britain in the Penrose Annual, printed and published by Lund Humphries of Bradford, always in the avant-garde. It was there seen by a young man working in a small advertising agency, already smitten with a fascination for printing (he had had a small press since he was 12) and letterforms of all sorts. Herbert Spencer never lost this fascination, almost awe, which remai...
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