Family background; childhood in Virginia; study and teaching at Art Students League, New York City, 1926-35; promotional art director, LIBERTY magazine, 1928-31; study with Rudolf Koch, 1931; assistant to Boardman Robinson, Colorado Springs, 1935-36; juvenile book illustrations; design of Trajanus and Lydian typefaces; book design for Alfred Knopf, George Macy, Book-of-the-Month Club, 1940 on; A SH ORT HISTORY OF THE PRINTED WORD, 1970; Oscar Ogg
Type designers; Book design; Book industries and trade; Publishers and publishing; Type and type-founding; Chappell, Warren, 1904-1991; Koch, Rudolf, 1876-1934; Robinson, Boardman, 1876-1952; Art Students League (New York, N.Y.)
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Date
1978
Physical Description
403 pages
Note (Biographical)
Artist, book designer
Note (Funding)
Digital reproduction funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Note
Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010
Service copy (44 kHz, 16 bit) and rendered version (96 kHz, 24 bit) of sound file derived from a digital preservation master digitized at 96 kHz, 24 bit