Type & Paper
Booklet
Carl Dair
1946
‘The Art of the Printer’ booklet – E. B. Eddy Paper Company, Carl Dair, 1956
The cover of The Art of the Printer reaches back to the earliest days of printing and lettering. Dair uses classic Roman letter shapes and construction principals to remind us that typography has always been governed by rules.
Each spread in The Art of the Printer has a foldout in which one side of the page cleverly works for two different sections. In this spread Dair uses a few of the pages that were chosen for Liber Librorum that had been held in Stockholm in 1955. He was the only Canadian designer invited to submit, his entry is the one in the lower left.
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Design for Printing
Booklet
Carl Dair
1947
Type Talks
Booklet
Carl Dair
1948
Spacing
Booklet
Carl Dair
1954
The Art of the Printer
Booklet
Carl Dair
1956
Title: Curabitur blandit tempus porttitor
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Article Data
Category
Date
1956
Title
The Art of the Printer
Description
Booklet
Two-colour booklet, 16 pp (with gate folds)
5.75 × 8.75 inches
Client
The E.B. Eddy CompanyCredits
Principal Typefaces
Text: Times New Roman, various
Cover: Augustea Roman, hand lettered ‘A’
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Region
Ontario
Language
English
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