Monday, June 13, 2016

Journal 10 - Herbert Spencer


Herbert Spencer was an English graphic designer and author. He was a writer, editor, and designer of the graphic design journal Typographica. He brought an awareness to printer, compositors, and designers a history of modernist design. In his articles he explained how typography in the twentieth century was ''entwined with those of 20th-century painting, poetry and architecture,'' he wrote.

Herbert Spencer was born in London on June 22, 1924 and died March 11, 2002. His family was uninterested in art. During World War II he was a cartographer for the Royal Air Force. He later worked designing trademarks for a London firm called Typographical Designers. He was a typography instructor at the Central School of Arts and Crafts from 1949 to 1955. In 1966 he became a senior research fellow in the print research department of the Royal College of Art; he was a professor of graphic arts there from 1978 until 1985.

Herbert Spencer wrote a number of books. He is most known for writing Pioneers of Modern Typography in 1969. It drew on and re-used material he previously published in his journal Typographica.

Sources

Meggs’ History of Graphic Design



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