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Bruce Rogers. Bruce Rogers (May 14, 1870 – May 21, 1957) was an American typographer and type designer, acclaimed by some as among the greatest book designers of the twentieth century. [1] Rogers was known for his "allusive" typography, rejecting modernism, seldom using asymmetrical arrangements, rarely using sans serif type faces, often ...
Bruce Rogers (born May 14, 1870, Linnwood, Ind., U.S.—died May 18, 1957, New Fairfield, Conn.) was a typographer and book designer, highly influential in fine book design in the United States during the early 20th century. Trained as an artist, Rogers began as an illustrator for an Indianapolis newspaper. In 1895 he moved to Boston, where he ...
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Oct 6, 2017 · Bruce Rogers (1870–1957) is one of the most celebrated book designers of the 20th century. He was not hip or edgy, but urbane, scholarly, and meticulous. He revered classical structure and beauty and disdained modernism. During the second half of the 20th century, at the height of the international design movement, the design establishment ...
Bruce Rogers and His Centaur. September-October 2006. In Harvard University Press: A History, editor and historian Max Hall writes, "Bruce Rogers (1870-1957), an urbane, scholarly, meticulous, ingenious, roving man from Indiana, who applied his arts for many publishers and printers on both sides of the Atlantic, is widely considered the first ...
The Centaur types are arguably the greatest achievement of the Indiana-born typographer and book designer Bruce Rogers (1870-1957). In The Noblest Roman – which continues the long association of Bruce Rogers research with staff at the Cary Graphic Arts Collection at Rochester Institute of Technology in New York – Jerry Kelly and Misha Beletsky set out to give the definitive history of ...
Jul 21, 2023 · Bruce Rogers was born in LInwood, Indiana in 1870, and graduated from Purdue University in 1890. His career as a typographer and designer of books lasted for more than 60 years, and during that time he designed for noted presses in both England and the United States, including the Riverside Press, the Cambridge University Press, and the Harvard University Press.
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Bruce Rogers (May 14, 1870 – May 21, 1957) was an American typographer and type designer, acclaimed by some as among the greatest book designers of the twentieth century. [1]
