[a decorated shadow alphabet] designbriefyear1 and Jan van Toorn

and Jan van Toorn

In the first and foremost place it is a celebration of the 80th birthday of Wim Crouwel

” which favored a structuralist

consisting of twelve world-renowned designers

this is a “holy grail” book that captures the exact moment a master craftsman reconciled the rigid history of metal type with the “elastic” future of digital design

[a decorated shadow alphabet] designbriefyear1 and Jan van ToornWeve spent the better part of our lives disgusted when weve gone into antique shops and book stores and come across bins of old maps and prints that were removed from books and sold individually. It recently occurred to us, however, that those maps and prints probably (or, possibly) came out of books that were falling apart and could not be sold. Maybe selling those loose pages isnt so offensive after all. Its not something we would do. No. Wed just