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User's manual
No full text‘Typeform dialogues’ was planned and designed as an interactive CD-based screen interface presenting a comparative survey of typeform history and description. Although not completed as planned, a PDF document, ‘Typeform dialogues’, was published in 2012, edited by Eric Kindel and with contributions by Catherine Dixon. The PDF contains the User’s Manual for the CD-based interface, which was the project’s main focus, together with various supporting materials that describe the project. The User’s Manual presents all interface sections and features and explains their editorial rationale, design, and function. This output was superseded by a second edition of ‘Typeform dialogues’ published in 2018
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The description of stencilling by Gilles Filleau des Billettes: transcription and translation
No full textThis article presents the description of stencilling by Gilles Filleau des Billettes. The description sets out a method for stencilling letters, words, and texts, and specifies equipment for doing the work; it forms the basis for a reconstruction of the equipment and method, which is presented in a parallel article in this volume of Typography papers (see E. Kindel, 'A reconstruction of stencilling based on the description by Gilles Filleau des Billettes', Typography papers, 9, pp. 28–65). The original French text, approximately 10,000 words in length, is here transcribed and accompanied by a parallel English translation. Introductory notes on the preparation of both texts are provided; images of stencil letters found among the papers of Sébastien Truchet, Des Billettes’s colleague, are shown in an appendix
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Eminents observed: a century of writing, lettering, type and typography at the Central School, London
Full text linkThis study surveys teachers of formal writing, lettering, type and typography at the Central School, London, from its early years until the 1990s. Featured individuals include Emery Walker, W. R. Lethaby, Edward Johnston, J. H. Mason, Graily Hewitt, Nicolete Gray and Nicholas Biddulph. The study constructs a continuous ‘lineage’ of teaching in these areas, by these individuals, in part through the consideration, analysis and interpretation of the ‘forms’ this teaching took, whether as illustrated lectures, published works, graphic and typographic practice, or as an archive of exemplars. In addition to its historical concerns, the study provides context for the ‘Typeform dialogues’ CD interactive interface (presented elsewhere in the published PDF document), whose editorial conception and design was informed by the lineage and tradition of teaching the study addresses
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A reconstruction of stencilling based on the description by Gilles Filleau des Billettes
No full textThis essay recounts and illustrates the reconstruction and testing of tools, furniture and working methods for stencilling texts. The description on which the reconstruction is based, written by Gilles Filleau des Billettes in Paris in the 1690s, is supplied elsewhere in this volume, together with an English translation. From the reconstruction and tests conducted with it, observations and conclusions are drawn about its effectiveness and its likely relationship to (then) contemporary stencilling practices. Four appendices are also included dealing with Des Billettes's method of designing and spacing letters; the cutting of stencils; the engraving by Louis Simonneau that accompanies Des Billettes's text; and later stencil configurations and working methods that incorporate the same or similar features to those described by Des Billettes
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Stencil-making in Paris in the eighteenth century
No full textThis is a study of stencil-making in Paris in the eighteenth century, and of stencilmakers active there. It reports on methods of work, commercial circumstances, locations, products, customers, distribution networks, and professional trajectories. Two stencilmakers are featured, Louis Bresson de Maillard and Jean Gabriel Bery, alongside other contemporary and later stencilmakers. Evidence drawn on includes texts describing stencil-making and stencil work, technical illustrations, advertisements, specimens, receipted bills, public administrative documents and death inventories, published works, and artefacts including stencil plates and stencil work. A series of appendices list known advertisements of Bresson de Maillard, transcribe and translate representative advertisements among them, and transcribe and translate descriptions and valuations of stencil merchandise, tools, and materials recorded in the inventories of Bery and two other Paris stencilmakers
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Isotype in Africa: Gold Coast, Sierra Leone, and the Western Region of Nigeria, 1952–8
No full textA review of work done by the Isotype Institute in the 1940s and 1950s, associated with Africa. The chapter discusses Otto Neurath's growing interest in the last years of his life in the issue of presenting information to (West) Africans through Isotype methods. Although this interest was not realised by Otto Neurath in the form of completed work during his lifetime, Marie Neurath and the Isotype Institute did successfully carry out numerous projects in Britain's West African colonies during the 1950s, in Sierra Leone, Gold Coast (Ghana), and most extensively in the Western Region of Nigeria. Discussion of these projects illustrates the means by which Isotype work was carried out in a developing world context, the difficulties that were encountered, and the issues of effectiveness and sustainability the work raised
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Introduction
No full textDescribes the origins of the four articles appearing in the volume, presents primary sources and the circumstances of stencilling and stencilled music books, reviews secondary literature, and argues for the significance of the topic. The four articles are then summarised and considered in total, and areas of desirable future research identified
Book Review: Isotype: Design and contexts 1925–1971
Full text linkBurke, Christoher; Kindel, Eric; Walker, Sue (Eds.) Hyphen Press, London, 20
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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