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Who runs ILT? How, why, when and by whom was I Love Typography founded? John Boardley founded ILT in 2007...
Jun 18, 2021 · John Boardley’s Typographic Firsts, published by the Bodleian Library, creates awareness for these developments that (mainly) started in the fifteenth century and still shape our books (even the digital ones) in the twenty-first century.
John Boardley’s award-winning book, Typographic Firsts, charts the formative early history of the printed or typographic book. Many of the standard features of the printed book were designed by pioneering typographers and printers in the latter half of the fifteenth century.
Aug 20, 2020 · John Boardley. Many of the letterforms we use today evolved from pictures of things. Some, like the letter O, for example, retain those traces still — it’s easy to imagine an O as an eye, especially when we add a smaller circle or dot at its center, as it sometimes appeared in Egypt and the Middle East, more than 3,000 years ago.
Apr 5, 2019 · John Boardley, who now lives in Saigon, is the author of ‘Typographic Firsts’ and the forthcoming ‘Remarkable Renaissance Books’. He’s now busy writing his debut novel, Myriad. firstruleofbookclub dot com
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Jul 31, 2020 · John Boardley. Most histories of the poster begin in the nineteenth century in France during the Belle Époque, when artists and printmakers like Jules Chéret and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec raised the poster from cheap print to high art. The arrival of the modern poster coincides with the invention of lithography and chromolithography, which ...
Typographic Firsts: Adventures in Early Printing. John Boardley. Bodleian Library, 2019 - Art - 192 pages. How were the first fonts made? Who invented italics? When did we figure out how to print...
