Michael Twyman

Michael Twyman (nascido em 1934) é professor emérito do Department of Typography & Graphic Communication da University of Reading.

Twyman é frequentemente citado por seus trabalhos sobre história da imprensa e de ephemera (publicações de pouca duração, como rótulos, jornais, panfletos, etc.), especialmente litografia. Além disso ele é bem conhecido por seus escritos sobre a teoria das linguagens gráficas.

Obra selecionada (1970) Printing 1770–1970: an illustrated history of its development and uses in England. Eyre & Spottiswoode, London. (1979) A Schema for the Study of Graphic Language. In The Processing of Visible Language, (Eds, Kolers, P.A., Wrolstad, M.E. & Bouma, H.) Plenum, New York (1982) The Graphic Presentation of Language, Information Design Journal 3(1), 2-22. (1985) Using Pictorial Language: A Discussion of the Dimensions of the Problem. In Designing Usable Texts, (Eds, Thomas Duffy & Robert Walker) , Academic Press, Orlando. (1990) Early Lithographed Books : a study of the design and production of improper books in the age of the hand press. Farrand, London. (1996) Early Lithographed Music : a study based on the H. Baron collection. Farrand, London. (1998) The British Library Guide to Printing: history and techniques. British Library, London. (2000) Breaking the Mould : the first hundred years of lithography. British Library, London.

Fontes Staff pages of the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication Accessed April 13 2007. Interview with Michael Twyman at www.letterspace.com Accessed April 13 2007.

Vêr também Philip Meggs Steven Heller

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