MODULAR GRID + HIERARCHY PROCESS

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M OD ULA R

SPRING 2020 • LINDA TALLEUR

grid + hierarchy

ELYSSA BEZNER


terms notes Text Alignments: Justified type is the words in a particular box of text starting and ending in the same places. In Flush Left, all lines begin at the left and then are jagged depending on the text on the right. Flush Right is the exact opposite. Parts of the grid: Margins are the negative spaces between the format edge and the content, which surround and define the live area where type and images will be arranged. The gutter is the space between each column and row. A column is a vertical alignment of type that creates horizontal divisions between the margins. A module is an individual unit of space separated by regular intervals which, when repeated, create columns and rows. Font Family: Traditional, Extended, and Super. Traditional includes roman, italic, bold, and small cap styles. Extended branches out to include hairline, black, and condensed styles, and the super included every style ever. Line Spacing/Leading: The amount of horizontal space between lines of text, measured baseline to baseline.

Tracking: Overall spacing between letters in text. Kerning: Adjusting the space between individual letters. Hierarchy: Change in type size, weight, color, style and placement throughout the composition to emphasize the order of importance. Golden section: a 2000yo ratio, A: b = b : (a+b) Smaller of two elements relates to the larger elements in the same way that the larger element relates to the two parts combined. 1: 1,618 Multicolumn grid: flexible format for publications with complex hierarchy + that integrate text and illustrations. Can create zones for different kinds of content. Designing with a Hang line: Divides the page more horizontally, body text can ‘hang’ from a common line. Modular Grid: consistent horizontal divisions from top to bottom and vertical divisions from left to right. Devised by Swiss graphic designers. Baseline grid: Mod grids created by positioning horizontal guidelines in relation to a baseline grid that governs the whole document. Baselines anchor all elements to a common rhythm.

readings notes ‘The Grid’ notes Graphic design is all about alignment. Creates uniformity and variety, Justified has ‘rivers’ which can be bad No floating things at the edges, or all justified. “Internal structure” layout comes from the elements on the page Line spacing, the space between lines, creates texture, open or closed, lighter or darker. Need effective hierarchy or anything important is lost. -- pick one thing that is used to emphasize, (color or size) and use sparingly. Scale and Tension notes: “Scale: relative to context. Conveys meaning Scale relationships are conceptual -- used to convey variety or quantity. Can tell a visual story, bring life and excitement. Tension between small and large created visual interest.

Scale is “relationship” Surprise the audience by flipping what is expected in scale. Symmetry/Asymmetry Natural organisms are symmetrical -- calling back to nature, stable and balanced. Designers for centuries are drawn to this ^ inherently understandable Asymmetry is balanced as well. Dynamic. Design that moves and changes, viewers eye moves around the page. In symmetry, scale can create that movement and can introduce drama. Tool: Symmetry or asymmetry -- basic and understandable. Harness both in a creative and dynamic way.


swiss design Swiss style originated through the art of Swiss graphic designers but also emerged in Russia, Germany and the Netherlands around the same time in the 1920s. It upholds the aesthetic of simplicity in design and follows the “form follows function� principle. All the elements serve a purpose in establishing hierarchy or giving an aspect a particular emphasis. Rather than textures and illustration, the craft is focused on typography and layout design. There’s also emphasis on uniformity and geometric patterns, and offbeat color combinations, all while using the grid and effective utilization of white space. It is also known as International Style or Typographic Design style. Josef Muller-Brockman was one of the chief proponents of its use along with the Basel School of Design and the Zurich University of the Arts. This movement changed the trajectory of design in the world while it was a direct result of the cluttered and illegible type usages of the past.


rosmarie tissi Rosmarie Tissi was born in Switzerland in 1937 and is a notable designer from the their School of Arts and Crafts. She formed a studio with her former employer Siegfried Odermatt in 1968 called O&T. Her work can be identified through her use of strong, vibrant colors and asymmetrical design. She juxtaposes intense scale differences to establish emphasis and importance, but also does not sacrifice attractiveness for functionality. She always held that the purpose of design is to deliver a message in the most visually interesting and original way possible. Her work directly reflects her Swiss design education. She taught at the Rhode Island School of Design and Yale University and is a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale and the Art Directors Club since 1992.


josef muller brockman Josef Muller-Brockman was a famous designer from Switzerland and a chief proponent of Swiss Typographic Design. He was born in 1914 and studied architecture, art and design at the university of Zurich and Kunstgewerbeschule. He opened his own studio at the age of 22 where he specialized in graphic design, exhibition design, and photography. He published several books, including: The Graphic Artist, Design Problems, History of Visual Communications and Grid Systems in Graphic Design. He is most well-known Swiss designer, and like other Swiss designers, he uses offbeat color combinations, minimalistic structures and strong type. He developed the constructivism movements, as well as de stijl, and the Bauhaus. He became a teacher at the Zurich School of Arts and Crafts at 43 and his book, “Grid Systems in Graphic Design� is used today by design schools internationally to teach the grid to students.


paul rand Paul Rand is an American Graphic Designer and was born in Brooklyn in 1914. He is associated with the New York School Movement and Modernism and was one of the first Americans to practice Swiss style. He schooled at Pratt Institute and the Art Student League. After graduation he worked as a freelancer and was best known for later developing logos for IBM, Morningstar Inc, ABC, UPS, and Westinghouse. Originally named Peretx Rosenbaum, he eventually changed his name for fear that his Jewish identity would interfere with his career. His work with different companies communicated to the world that graphic design can set apart certain firms in the saturated market and largely buoyed the American publication and advertising community at that time.


emil ruder Emil Ruder was an Swiss graphic designer and typographer, born in Zurich in 1914. Emil is regarded as a main contributor to the Swiss style period and the idea of communicating ideas through writing. He attended the Schule fĂźr Gestaltung Zurich after serving an apprenticeship as a typesetter for four years. He later published a book called “Typography: A Manual of Design,â€? and it served to establish rules in effective use of typography and its elements. He also used asymmetrical compositions, san serifs and emphasized elements through strong hierarchy as well as positive and negative space considerations. He chiefly used the grid and was a monumental influence on designers to this day.


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Niggli Verlag

Niggli Verlag

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1967

Elyssa Bezner March 3


Niggli Verlag 1967

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Typography: A Manual of Design 1967

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Typography: A Manual of Design Emil Ruder

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Elyssa Bezner March 3


Typography: A Manual of Design Typography: A Manual of Design

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Emil Ruder

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Elyssa Bezner March 3

Niggli Verlag


Emil Ruder

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Typography: A Manual of Design

Emil Ruder Typography: A Manual of Design

Niggli Verlag 1967

Round 1:

Elyssa Bezner March 3


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Emil Ruder

Niggli Verlag

Niggli Verlag

Typography: A Manual of Design Round 1:

Elyssa Bezner March 3


1967 Typography: A Manual of Design Emil Ruder Niggli Verlag

Typography: A Manual of Design Emil Ruder 1967 Niggli Verlag

Round 1:

Elyssa Bezner March 3


1967

Niggli Verlag

Typography: A Manual of Design

Typography: Emil Ruder

A Manual of Design Emil Ruder

1967

Round 1:

Niggli Verlag

Elyssa Bezner March 3


Typography: A Manual of Design

TYPOGRAPHY: A Manual of Design

Emil Ruder

Round 2:

Emil Ruder Niggli Verlag

Niggli Verlag

1967

1967

Elyssa Bezner March 3


Typography: A Manual of Design

TYPOGRAPHY: A Manual of Design

Emil Ruder Emil Ruder Niggli Verlag

Niggli Verlag

1967

1967

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Elyssa Bezner March 3


1967

1967 Emil Ruder

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Niggli Verlag

niggli verlag

Typography: A Manual of Design

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typography: a manual of design

Elyssa Bezner March 3


Typography: A Manual of Design

typography: a manual of design

Emil Ruder 1967 Niggli Verlag

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emil ruder 1967 Niggli Verlag

Elyssa Bezner March 3


Niggli Verlag 1967

Niggli Verlag 1967

typography: Typography: A Manual of Design

a manual of design emil ruder

Emil Ruder

Round 2:

Elyssa Bezner March 3


1967 Typography: A Manual of Design

1967 Typography: a manual of design

Emil Ruder

Emil Ruder Niggli Verlag

Niggli Verlag

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Elyssa Bezner March 3


modular grid round 2


Emil Ruder

Typography: A Manual of Design 1967

Round 3

Niggli Verlag

Emil Ruder

Typography: A Manual of Design 1967

Niggli Verlag

Elyssa Bezner March 5


Emil Ruder

Typography: A Manual of Design 1967

Round 3

Niggli Verlag

Emil Ruder

Typography: A Manual of Design 1967

Niggli Verlag

Elyssa Bezner March 5


Emil Ruder

Emil Ruder

Typography: A Manual of Design 1967

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Niggli Verlag

Typography: A Manual of Design 1967

Niggli Verlag

Elyssa Bezner March 5


Niggli Verlag 1967

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typography:

typography:

a manual of

a manual of

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design

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Elyssa Bezner March 5


Niggli Verlag 1967

Niggli Verlag 1967

typography:

typography:

a manual of

a manual of

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Elyssa Bezner March 5


Niggli Verlag 1967

Niggli Verlag 1967

typography:

typography:

a manual of

a manual of

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design

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Elyssa Bezner March 5


Emil Ruder

Emil Ruder

Typography: A Manual of Design

Typography: A Manual of Design

Niggli Verlag

Niggli Verlag

1967

1967

Round 3

Elyssa Bezner March 5


Emil Ruder

Emil Ruder

Typography: A Manual of Design

Typography: A Manual of Design

Niggli Verlag

Niggli Verlag

1967

1967

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Emil Ruder

Emil Ruder

Typography: A Manual of Design

Typography: A Manual of Design

Niggli Verlag

Niggli Verlag

1967

1967

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Elyssa Bezner March 5


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Typography: A Manual of Design

Emil Ruder

Typography: A Manual of Design

Niggli Verlag 1967

Round 3

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Elyssa Bezner March 23


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Elyssa Bezner March 23


Typography: A Manual of Design

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Typography: A Manual of Design

Typography: A Manual of Design

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Elyssa Bezner March 23


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Typography: A Manual of Design

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Elyssa Bezner March 26


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Back Cover

Niggli Ve r l a g “Typography: a manual of design” is the legacy of emil ruder. The volume is a comprehensive masterpiece seen in its overall structure: in the themes presented, in the comparison of similarities and contrasts, in the richness of the illustrations and the harmoniously inserted types. Today, fifty years after this book was first published, it is still widely used and referenced.

Front Cover

Niggli Ve r l a g Emil Ruder

Niggli Ve r l a g EMIL RUDER

Emil Ruder TYPOGRAPHY: A MANUAL OF DESIGN

Round 4: Elyssa

TYPOGRAPHY: A MANUAL OF DESIGN

Emil Ruder (1914–1970) was a Swiss typographer. He is distinguishable in the field of typography for developing a holistic approach to designing and teaching that consisted of philosophy, theory and a systematic practical methodology. Ruder was one of the major contributors to swiss style design. He taught that typography’s purpose was to communicate ideas through writing, as well as placing a heavy importance on sans-serif typefaces. No other designer since Jan Tschichold was as committed as ruder to the discipline of letterpress typography or wrote about it with such conviction.

Spine

TYPOGRAPHY: A MANUAL OF DESIGN

1967 score and fold


Back Cover

Emil Ruder

Niggli Ve r l a g “Typography: a manual of design” is the legacy of emil ruder. The volume is a comprehensive masterpiece seen in its overall structure: in the themes presented, in the comparison of similarities and contrasts, in the richness of the illustrations and the harmoniously inserted types. Today, fifty years after this book was first published, it is still widely used and referenced.

Round 4: Elyssa

Niggli Ve r l a g

Emil Ruder

TYPOGRAPHY: A MANUAL OF DESIGN

TYPOGRAPHY: A MANUAL OF DESIGN

Emil Ruder (1914–1970) was a Swiss typographer. He is distinguishable in the field of typography for developing a holistic approach to designing and teaching that consisted of philosophy, theory and a systematic practical methodology. Ruder was one of the major contributors to swiss style design. He taught that typography’s purpose was to communicate ideas through writing, as well as placing a heavy importance on sans-serif typefaces. No other designer since Jan Tschichold was as committed as ruder to the discipline of letterpress typography or wrote about it with such conviction.

Spine

Front Cover

Niggli Ve r l a g Emil Ruder

TYPOGRAPHY: A MANUAL OF DESIGN

1967 score and fold


Back Cover

Spine

Emil Ruder (1914–1970) was a Swiss typographer. He is distinguishable in the field of typography for developing a holistic approach to designing and teaching that consisted of philosophy, theory and a systematic practical methodology. Ruder was one of the major contributors to Swiss Style design. He taught that typography’s purpose was to communicate ideas through writing, as well as placing a heavy importance on Sans-serif typefaces. No other designer since Jan Tschichold was as committed as Ruder to the discipline of letterpress typography or wrote about it with such conviction.

TYPOGRAPHY: A MANUAL OF DESIGN

EMIL RUDER

Front Cover

EMIL RUDER

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NIGGLI VERLAG TYPOGRAPHY: A MANUAL OF DESIGN

“Typography: A Manual of Design” is the legacy of Emil Ruder. The volume is a comprehensive masterpiece seen in its overall structure: in the themes presented, in the comparison of similarities and contrasts, in the richness of the illustrations and the harmoniously inserted types. Today, fifty years after this book was first published, it is still widely used and referenced.

Round 4: Elyssa

EMIL RUDER

TYPOGRAPHY: A MANUAL OF DESIGN

NIGGLI VERLAG

score and fold


Back Cover

Spine

Emil Ruder (1914–1970) was a Swiss typographer. He is distinguishable in the field of typography for developing a holistic approach to designing and teaching that consisted of philosophy, theory and a systematic practical methodology. Ruder was one of the major contributors to Swiss Style design. He taught that typography’s purpose was to communicate ideas through writing, as well as placing a heavy importance on Sans-serif typefaces. No other designer since Jan Tschichold was as committed as Ruder to the discipline of letterpress typography or wrote about it with such conviction.

“Typography: A Manual of Design” is the legacy of Emil Ruder. The volume is a comprehensive masterpiece seen in its overall structure: in the themes presented, in the comparison of similarities and contrasts, in the richness of the illustrations and the harmoniously inserted types. Today, fifty years after this book was first published, it is still widely used and referenced.

NIGGLI VERLAG

TYPOGRAPHY: A MANUAL OF DESIGN

EMIL RUDER

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TYPOGRAPHY: A MANUAL OF DESIGN

EMIL RUDER

Round 4: Elyssa

TYPOGRAPHY: A MANUAL OF DESIGN

EMIL RUDER

Front Cover

NIGGLI VERLAG

score and fold


Back Cover

Spine

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1967

Emil Ruder

Emil Ruder (1914–1970) was a Swiss typographer. He is distinguishable in the field of typography for developing a holistic approach to designing and teaching that consisted of philosophy, theory and a systematic practical methodology. Ruder was one of the major contributors to Swiss Style design. He taught that typography’s purpose was to communicate ideas through writing, as well as placing a heavy importance on Sans-serif typefaces. No other designer since Jan Tschichold was as committed as Ruder to the discipline of letterpress typography or wrote about it with such conviction.

Round 4: Elyssa

“Typography: A Manual of Design” is the legacy of Emil Ruder. The volume is a comprehensive masterpiece seen in its overall structure: in the themes presented, in the comparison of similarities and contrasts, in the richness of the illustrations and the harmoniously inserted types. Today, fifty years after this book was first published, it is still widely used and referenced.

Emil Ruder

Typography: A Manual of Design

Typography: A Manual of Design

Niggli Verlag

Front Cover

Emil Rud Typography: A Manual of Design

score and fold

Niggli Verlag


Back Cover

Spine

Front Cover

1967

Emil Ruder (1914–1970) was a Swiss typographer. He is distinguishable in the field of typography for developing a holistic approach to designing and teaching that consisted of philosophy, theory and a systematic practical methodology. Ruder was one of the major contributors to Swiss Style design. He taught that typography’s purpose was to communicate ideas through writing, as well as placing a heavy importance on Sans-serif typefaces. No other designer since Jan Tschichold was as committed as Ruder to the discipline of letterpress typography or wrote about it with such conviction.

Emil Ruder

Round 4: Elyssa

Emil Ruder

Typography: A Manual of Design

“Typography: A Manual of Design” is the legacy of Emil Ruder. The volume is a comprehensive masterpiece seen in its overall structure: in the themes presented, in the comparison of similarities and contrasts, in the richness of the illustrations and the harmoniously inserted types. Today, fifty years after this book was first published, it is still widely used and referenced.

Typography: A Manual of Design

Niggli Verlag

Emil Rud

Typography: A Manual of Design

score and fold

Niggli Verlag


Back Cover

Niggli Verlag

“Typography: A Manual of Design” is the legacy of Emil Ruder. The volume is a comprehensive masterpiece seen in its overall structure: in the themes presented, in the comparison of similarities and contrasts, in the richness of the illustrations and the harmoniously inserted types. Today, fifty years after this book was first published, it is still widely used and referenced.

Round 4: Elyssa

Typography:A Maunal of Deisgn

Emil Ruder (1914–1970) was a Swiss typographer. He is distinguishable in the field of typography for developing a holistic approach to designing and teaching that consisted of philosophy, theory and a systematic practical methodology. Ruder was one of the major contributors to Swiss Style design. He taught that typography’s purpose was to communicate ideas through writing, as well as placing a heavy importance on Sans-serif typefaces. No other designer since Jan Tschichold was as committed as Ruder to the discipline of letterpress typography or wrote about it with such conviction.

Emil Ruder

Emil Ruder

Spine

Front Cover

Emil

R

uder

Typography: A Manual of Design

Niggli Verlag 1967

score and fold


Back Cover

Emil Ruder (1914–1970) was a Swiss typographer. He is distinguishable in the field of typography for developing a holistic approach to designing and teaching that consisted of philosophy, theory and a systematic practical methodology. Ruder was one of the major contributors to Swiss Style design. He taught that typography’s purpose was to communicate ideas through writing, as well as placing a heavy importance on Sans-serif typefaces. No other designer since Jan Tschichold was as committed as Ruder to the discipline of letterpress typography or wrote about it with such conviction.

Emil Ruder

Round 4: Elyssa

Typography:A Maunal of Deisgn

“Typography: A Manual of Design” is the legacy of Emil Ruder. The volume is a comprehensive masterpiece seen in its overall structure: in the themes presented, in the comparison of similarities and contrasts, in the richness of the illustrations and the harmoniously inserted types. Today, fifty years after this book was first published, it is still widely used and referenced.

Emil Ruder

Niggli Verlag

Spine

Front Cover

Emil

R

uder

Typography: A Manual of Design

Niggli Verlag 1967

score and fold


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“Typography: a manual of

was a Swiss typographer. He is design” is the legacy of Emil Ruder. distinguishable in the field of typography The volume is a comprehensive for developing a holistic approach to masterpiece seen in its overall designing and teaching that consisted structure: in the themes presented, of philosophy, theory and a systematic in the comparison of similarities and practical methodology. Ruder was one contrasts, in the richness of the of the major contributors to swiss style illustrations and the harmoniously design. He taught that typography’s inserted types. Today, fifty years after purpose was to communicate ideas this book was first published, it is still through writing, as well as placing widely used and referenced. a heavy importance on sans-serif typefaces. No other designer since Jan Tschichold was as committed as ruder to the discipline of letterpress typography or wrote about it with such conviction.

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TYPOGRAPHY: A MANUAL OF DESIGN

“Typography: A Manual of Design” is the legacy of Emil Ruder. The volume is a comprehensive masterpiece seen in its overall structure: in the themes presented, in the comparison of similarities and contrasts, in the richness of the illustrations and the harmoniously inserted types. Today, fifty years after this book was first published, it is still widely used and referenced.

Emil Ruder (1914–1970) was a Swiss typographer. He is distinguishable in the field of typography for developing a holistic approach to designing and teaching that consisted of philosophy, theory and a systematic practical methodology. Ruder was one of the major contributors to Swiss Style design. He taught that typography’s purpose was to communicate ideas through writing, as well as placing a heavy importance on Sans-serif typefaces. No other designer since Jan Tschichold was as committed as Ruder to the discipline of letterpress typography or wrote about it with such conviction.

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TYPOGRAPHY: A MANUAL OF DESIGN EMIL RUDER

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Typography: A Manual of Design

Emil Ruder (1914–1970) was a Swiss

typographer. He is distinguishable in the field of typography for developing a holistic approach to designing and teaching that consisted of philosophy, theory and a systematic practical methodology. Ruder was one of the major contributors to Swiss Style design. He taught that typography’s purpose was to communicate ideas through writing, as well as placing a heavy importance on Sans-serif typefaces. No other designer since Jan Tschichold was as committed as Ruder to the discipline of letterpress typography or wrote about it with such conviction.

“Typography: A Manual of Design” is the legacy of Emil Ruder. The

1967 Emil Ruder

volume is a comprehensive masterpiece seen in its overall structure: in the themes presented, in the comparison of similarities and contrasts, in the richness of the illustrations and the harmoniously inserted types. Today, fifty years after this book was first published, it is still widely used and referenced.

Typography: A Manual of Design

Niggli Verlag

Emi Rud Niggli Verlag


Emil Ruder (1914–1970) was a Swiss typographer. He is distinguishable in the field of typography for developing a holistic approach to designing and teaching that consisted of philosophy, theory and a systematic practical methodology. Ruder was one of the major contributors to Swiss Style design. He taught that typography’s purpose was to communicate ideas through writing, as well as placing a heavy importance on Sans-serif typefaces. No other designer since Jan Tschichold was as committed as Ruder to the discipline of letterpress typography or wrote about it with such conviction.

Emil Ruder

Niggli Verlag

Typography:A Maunal of Deisgn

Emil Ruder

“Typography: A Manual of Design” is the legacy of Emil Ruder. The volume is a comprehensive masterpiece seen in its overall structure: in the themes presented, in the comparison of similarities and contrasts, in the richness of the illustrations and the harmoniously inserted types. Today, fifty years after this book was first published, it is still widely used and referenced.

Typography: A Manual of Design

Niggli erlag

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Emil Ruder

A Manual of Design

Niggli Verlag

Emil Ruder

Typography:

Emil Ruder (1914–1970) was a Swiss typographer. He is distinguishable in the field of typography for developing a holistic approach to designing and teaching that consisted of philosophy, theory and a systematic practical methodology. Ruder was one of the major contributors to Swiss Style design. He taught that typography’s purpose was to communicate ideas through writing, as well as placing a heavy importance on Sans-serif typefaces. No other designer since Jan Tschichold was as committed as Ruder to the discipline of letterpress typography or wrote about it with such conviction.

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Typography: A Manual of Design

“Typography: A Manual of Design” is the legacy of Emil Ruder. The volume is a comprehensive masterpiece seen in its overall structure: in the themes presented, in the comparison of similarities and contrasts, in the richness of the illustrations and the harmoniously inserted types. Today, fifty years after this book was first published, it is still widely used and referenced.

Typography: A Manual of Design

Niggli Verlag

Emil Ruder


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