The catalogue of an exhibition of printed objects which chronicle more than a century of literary publishing in British Columbia: compiled by Robert Bringhurst and published by ...
This is an early piece from Glenn Goluska who would go on to become one of Canada’s leading typographers and graphic designers. Goluska was first attracted to the work of small ...
Edition number six, ‘etcetera’, is the last in the series A Typographic Quest and was published a few months after Carl Dair’s untimely death in September 1967. Etcetera simply ...
The type trade had changed significantly in the 15 short years since Design with Type first appeared. Photo-type was well on its way to replacing metal and a good many people in...
In the fifth booklet in the series Carl Dair examines the various forms of contrast in typography. He begins by comparing typography with music, noting that typography can often...
Carl Dair was very conscious of space in typography. Both editions of his book Design with Type even had a chapter devoted to it. His attitude regarding the role of space in des...
After examining the fundamentals of typography in the first issue of A Typographic Quest, it was perhaps only natural that Carl Dair should focus on display types in the second ...
In issue three, type to be read, Carl Dair looks at text types. Typically, text faces are tasked with doing the bulk of the work on most projects. Dair maintained that, unlike d...
Between 1956 and 1962, the American designer Bradbury Thompson had been responsible for the hugely popular Westvaco Inspirations for Printers. In 1964 Carl Dair begin a new seri...
The Art of the Printer is the fifth and last booklet in the series on type and paper that Carl Dair produced for The E. B. Eddy Company. Here Dair brings everything back to the ...
Spacing is the fourth booklet in the series on type and paper Carl Dair produced for The E. B. Eddy Company. It had been six years since Type Talks, the last booklet he produced...
The first edition of Design with Type is comprised largely from material Carl Dair had prepared for the first three E. B. Eddy booklets, and from his classes at both th...
