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The fruits of German Modernist designer Jan Tschichold's clean, typographical style are all around us today. The clean, asymmetric sans serifs he evangelised as 'the new typography' remain the de rigueur face of much corporate type and his redesign of Penguin Books in the late 1940s is a landmark. But it is Tschichold's early and sometimes unseen career that is the focus of a forthcoming book and exhibition at St Bride Library in London by type designer and writer Christopher Burke. ...

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