Baseline Issue 58 (Book)

We start off our articles with an extract from a postgraduate research project, titled ‘Designing information for everyday life’, at the University of Reading. The research team, headed by Paul Stiff, shows us 19th century maps, tables and documents.

Steven Heller is prompting the question ‘The return of stencil lettering: Had it ever gone’. The Stenso Lettering Guide by Ruth and Robert Libauer with its patented stencil sheets from 1942 was in popular use long before photo type or the computer.

‘Control Print 4’ is the concluding part of the research series, instigated by the Royal College of Art in London. Russell Warren-Fisher, heading the research, gives us a final summary of this project. Baseline was delighted to give this successful project a wider international forum.

Arnold Schwartzman, designer and film maker in Los Angeles, comments about his visual research, the gathering of authentic props and the detailing for his spy novel book cover designs of best selling author Len Deighton, published by Harper Collins.

Mark Stewart Cassidy reflects on Adrian Tyler’s meaningful photographic documentation. The article shows square-on frontal views of living spaces on the Outer Western Isles and the Orkneys
in Scotland.

We close the feature section with Carolyn Puzzovio’s concluding part of her research into the history and contemporary development of Armenian typeface design.