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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