Tag Archive: Academic Dissertation

• David Hebrew: The First Multi-Style Hebrew Typeface Family

  Ismar David was a remarkable type designer who began creating an innovative Hebrew typeface design in the 1930s. The resulting multi-style family contained features that would be considered ground breaking for decades…

• Trump Mediaeval: The Story of its Creation

  Trump Mediaeval is one of those versatile typefaces that book designers turn to when they want something decidedly different from the usual book types (Garamond et al.). Norbert Krausz tells the story…

• Searching for Morris Fuller Benton

  The twentieth century went by with little being written about one of America’s most important type designers. The information on Morris Fuller Benton remained scant, partially because his work stood outside of…

• A Comparative Study of the Development of the Gurmukhi Script (Part 1)

  This dissertation is an excellent introduction to the non-latin script in the Punjab region straddling the border of India and Pakistan. Emma Williams guides the reader through the historical origins and original…

• A Comparative Study of the Development of the Gurmukhi Script (Part 2)

  The second part of Emma Williams’ impressive dissertation on the Gurmukhi script continues with a look at the development of the printed character in text typeface designs.

• Three Typefaces for Mathematics

  The most effective typefaces for mathematical notation are those that have been created or adapted especially for it, anticipating both the typographic and the technical issues involved. This extensive dissertation examines the…

• French Type Foundries in the Twentieth Century

  The value of this dissertation lies not only in what it imparts to the reader, but also in its rarity, since relatively little information on the recent history of type in France…

• The Experimental Type Designs of William Addison Dwiggins

  A thorough and interesting dissertation about the lesser-known type designs from the man who brought us Electra, Metro, Caledonia and the term “graphic design.” Tiffany Wardle provides us with a brief biography…

• Technological Shifts in Type Design and Production

  The straightforward title might lead some to believe that this is a technical and rather dry dissertation. Nothing could be further from the truth. Malou Verlomme’s treatment of his topic is engaging,…

• Rhythm in Type Design

  A thorough investigation of a fundamental principle in type design. Lo Celso begins with the temporal and biological bases of rhythm and moves through its presence in speech, poetry and visual language…