From my Research and Enquiry module I have chosen to publish the bibliography section below, detailing important and canonical texts within the field of typography.
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Bayer, H., 1967. On Typography.
In: Bayer, H., 1967. Herbert Bayer: Painter Designer Architect.
New York: Reinhold. pp.75-77.
Anon, n.d Front Cover. [electronic print] Available at: <http://www.modernism101.com/images/bayer_reinhold.jpg> [Accessed 26th December 2011].
Herbert Bayer, a principle instructor within the Bauhaus School, was responsible for the reduction of typography to the bare essentials. Within On Typography, Bayer begins by assessing the disgruntled designers awaiting the typographic revolution. This is a useful text for dispelling old beliefs and explaining the requirements for a revolution, coupled with Bayer’s idea’s for prior advancement. Themes remain similar to Beatrice Warde (1930), with regards to the fundamental purpose of typography, as a ‘service art’; the successful communication of the written word. Disappointingly some reproductions of the essay are printed in serif type and occasionally with the re-introduction of the uppercase, dis-regarding Bayer’s fundamental typographic concepts outlined within the text. Read the rest of this entry »
