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Language Arts & Disciplines Journalism

The Typographic Mind

by (author) Robert Bringhurst

Publisher
Gaspereau Press Ltd.
Initial publish date
Jun 2006
Category
Journalism
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781554470327
    Publish Date
    Jun 2006
    List Price
    $1

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Description

An essay on thinking typographically. Includes references to architecture, design, language and poetry.

About the author

Robert Bringhurst is a poet, typographer and linguist, well known for his award-winning translations of the Haida storytellers Skaay and Ghandl, and for his translations of the early Greek philosopher-poet Parmenides. His manual The Elements of Typographic Style has itself been translated into ten languages and is now one of the world’s most influential texts on typographic design. Among his most recent publications is a pair of essay collections, The Tree of Meaning (GP, 2006) and Everywhere Being is Dancing (GP, 2007). Bringhurst lives on Quadra Island, off the British Columbia coast.

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