David Jury teaches at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, UK. He is also the author and designer of a number of books including Graphic Design Before Graphic Designers; About Face: Reviving the Rules of Typography; Letterpress: The Allure of the Handmade; and What is Typography? From 1996 to 2006 he was the editor of TypoGraphic, journal of the International Society of Typographic Designers. As a typographer and book designer he has won Awards of Excellence from D&AD, ICOGRADA, ISTD and the New York Type Club.
A well rounded take on the revival of post-digital craft ... For those attempting to track the resurgence of traditional techniques through a landscape dominated by digital production, Jury's book may prove a useful guide. * Eye Magazine * An academic and design historian-perhaps one of the best of our time-Jury has a lot to say and takes his time doing so. * Communication Arts Magazine * Print is NOT dead or dying, yet it is continually transformed. Jury's book is a necessary reminder of where print design came from, where it is going, and what it means to design as art and craft. * Steven Heller, co-chair SVA MFA Design / Designer As Author, and Entrepreneur * A practical and insightful review of the ever-changing landscape with respect to the interface[s] between digital and analogue technologies, specifically within creative practices such as graphic design and its related fields. * Dr Sheena Calvert, Camberwell College of Arts, UK * ...provides the balance that a current course in typography needs to prepare the next generation of graphic designers. * Dennis Ichiyama, Purdue University, USA *