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By accident or design : challenges and coincidences in my life / Rosemary Sassoon.
Van Pelt Library Z43.42.S27 A3 2018
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LIBRA Z43.42.S27 A3 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sassoon, Rosemary, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sassoon, Rosemary.
- Calligraphers--Great Britain--Biography.
- Calligraphers.
- Type designers--Great Britain--Biography.
- Type designers.
- Designers--Great Britain--Biography.
- Designers.
- Great Britain.
- Penmanship.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 88 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol, UK : Intellect, 2018.
- Summary:
- "In this reflective autobiography, Rosemary Sassoon, a leading expert on handwriting and typography, looks back on her long and varied career, paying special attention to her unorthodox progression through a variety of fields. She details the route that took her from design to the educational and medical aspects of handwriting problems, then on to research and a PhD, and finally to working in the area of legibility in type design. In telling the story of an unusual and unusually successful life, Sassoon takes up a number of philosophical questions about what it is that comes together to form our characters, and what role chance and coincidence play in our lives."--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Early life and design work 7
- Introduction
- Early life
- Art school
- Textile designing
- More lettering
- Packaging design
- Less productive years
- Textiles again
- Lettering as a decorative art
- My first book
- Teaching lettering
- Part 2 Changing direction 35
- Handwriting in schools
- My first handwriting book
- Further developments
- An introduction to the Medical Research Council
- Towards a doctoral thesis
- Typeface design
- Part 3 The wider implications of handwriting problems 57
- The medical aspects of handwriting
- Writing and travelling
- Part 4 A stroke, getting older and some conclusions 75
- The effects of a stroke.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 88).
- ISBN:
- 9781783208661
- 178320866X
- OCLC:
- 1013741884
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