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2024 · Australia
by Middleton, Robert Hunter
Australia: Opifex, 2024. paperback. 6 x 9 inches. paperback. 306 pages. Edited & annotated by Paul F. Gehl
Foreword by Raymond Stanley Nelson. Robert Hunter Middleton (1898-1985) was one of the most prolific American type designers of the twentieth century. He eventually claimed twenty-six original typefaces as his own designs, eight of them issued in series. The commercial and industrial context for this achievement is described in an earlier Opifex volume, Chicago Modernism & the Ludlow Typograph, also by Paul F. Gehl.
The Designer-Craftsman Speaks presents us with something deeper - Middleton's own thoughts abou (truncated)
Foreword by Raymond Stanley Nelson. Robert Hunter Middleton (1898-1985) was one of the most prolific American type designers of the twentieth century. He eventually claimed twenty-six original typefaces as his own designs, eight of them issued in series. The commercial and industrial context for this achievement is described in an earlier Opifex volume, Chicago Modernism & the Ludlow Typograph, also by Paul F. Gehl.
The Designer-Craftsman Speaks presents us with something deeper - Middleton's own thoughts abou (truncated)