Description

An attractive, interesting layout can certainly attract and please the reader; but when the details are not good, reading requires more effort and any pleasure is short-lived. Detail in typography is a concise and close-up view of the subject – letters, words, the line, and the space around the elements – and it discusses what is essential for the legibility of the text. Yet this is more than a guide to correct typography. How is it, Hochuli asks, that text can be set perfectly and yet look insufferably dull? Answers may be found here, not least in the way the book itself has been set and produced. Jost Hochuli is a Swiss typographer, internationally renowned for his book design work. As a teacher, he has had long experience in Zurich and his home town of St. Gallen. As a writer and editor, his books include Book design in Switzerland (1993), Designing books (1996), and Jost Hochuli: Printed matter, mainly books (2002). He has edited and designed the annually published Typotron series of booklets (1983-1998) and the Editions Ostschweiz (from 2000).

Note biographique

Jost Hochuli [SZ] est un typographe et un graphiste suisse internationalement reconnu pour son travail de qualité et d’inventivité dans le domaine du design de livre. Il a une grande expérience de l’enseignement notamment dans les écoles de Zurich et de Saint-Gall, sa ville natale. On lui doit, en tant qu’auteur, L’Art du livre en Suisse (Pro Helvetia, 1993), Designing Books (avec Robin Kinross, Hyphen Press, 1996) ainsi qu’une monographie, Jost Hochuli : Printed Matter, Mainly Books (Verlag Niggli, 2002), présentant la richesse et la diversité de son travail de designer et de typographe.

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