When books went bad: Charting the demise of the well made book February 13, 2014 – Posted in: book arts, graphic design
Graph accompanying Extracts from an investigation into the physical properties of books, as they are at present published, undertaken by the Society of Calligraphers The pamphlet was printed and published by noted American type designer, calligrapher, and book designer W.A. Dwiggins and L.B. Siegfried in 1919 and decried the then current state of book production. For the Society it was unanimous; “All Books of the Present Day are Badly Made” The reason were plenty “to…
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