Re: CHAT: Latin Alphabet Re-Designs (Was: Dutch and Cyrillic)

In a message dated 4/13/02 12.14.27 PM, butsuri@BTOPENWORLD.COM writes:

>The Visible Word
> by Herbert Spencer
>
> 107 pages
> Publisher: Hastings House; ISBN: 0803877331; [2d ed., rev.] edition
> Amazon.com Sales Rank: 608,573
>
> I'm quite certain it's the right book, as a search on the full title
> brings up one link referring to Herbert Spencer as the author.
    Thanx a googolplex. Now recall the author's name as being quite familar!
I actually possess a book he edited titled _The Liberated Page: A
Typographica Anthology_
(An Anthology of Major Typographic Experiments of this Century as Recorded in
'Typographica' Magazine), 1987, San Francisco: Bedford Press, ISBN (pbk)
0-938491-06-7.
    Oddly, I keep the photocopies of the Herbert Bayer and Wim Crouwel
re-designings of the Latin alphabet (as well as other re-designings) in this
particular book ::chagrin::

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imitation of Nature in her manner of operation."
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