#edward johnston

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Edward Johnston / London Underground / Railway Alphabet / 1916 / Piccadilly Circus

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In 1999, anachronistic things were found at some ruins in France, including a lense from a pair of modern glasses and a note written in modern English claiming to be from Professor Edward Johnston. It was learned that a company called ITC used technology to send Professor Johnston back to France to the year 1357. A team of researchers went back in time to look for him. (Timeline, Bk)

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One of our most beautiful Doves Press titles--and a gift from the late Jack Walsdorf--is this two-volume Men and Women, by Robert Browning published in 1908. Notable about this set is that its Doves Bindery binding, but most spectacular is the unique flourishing by hand throughout each volume after publication by the father of modern calligraphy, Edward Johnston (1872-1944)...

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Original drawing for the London Underground logo, by Edward Johnston.

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Nikelab x Roundel honor Johnston typeface with a cult classic

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versals

spread from edward johnston’s Wrinting & Illuminating & Lettering [john hoog, london, 1913 (the sixth edition, which is the fourth printing of the third edition), pp 116-7]. happy study of this seminal & comprehensive manual is best attained via a letterpress copy—the john hoog editions are a treat!  of the versal, johnston informs us: «The capitals written at the beginning of books, chapters, and paragraphs grew larger and more ornamental, and at length were made in colour and decorated with pen flourishes. Such letters, used to mark the beginnings of verses, paragraphs, &c, have been called ‘Versals’.» to which he appends the footnote: «Though Versals may generally be regarded as paragraph marking letters, it is convenient to apply the term to the Versal type of letter (the early Illuminator’s Pen-capital)—e.g. ‘a heading in Versal letters’.»  johnston intimates that his versal designs are abstracted from manuscripts of the 11th through 13th centuries: this capital type developed throughout the holy roman empire—trier, reichenau, regensburg—under byzantine influence; stanley morison calls this capital type uncialesque [cf. chapter 5 in morisons’s Politics & Script, at the clarendon  press, oxford, 1972]. 

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Books On Books Collection - Gerard Unger

Books On Books Collection – Gerard Unger

A Counter-proposal (1967) Een tegenvoorstel/A counter-proposal/Une contreproposition/Ein gegenvorschlag (1967)Gerard UngerPamphlet. 250 x 250 mm, 4 pages. Acquired from Antiquariaat Frans Melk, 27 April 2021.Photos: Books On Books Collection. A few months after Pieter Brattinga issued Wim Crouwel‘s New Alphabet (below left), he followed up with this single-fold riposte from Gerard Unger,…

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Edward Johnston, 56 a’s made as wrongly as possible

“ few .. were more acutely aware than he of how the order in which a thing was done affects the thing itself.”  

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