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Sunday, 13 March 2011

Research for 'Graphic Design and Typography' - Beatrice L.Warde

Looking at the type face Garamond and how this relates to Beatrice L. Warde.

(American 1900-1969) Warde noticed in her research conducted into the history of typefaces that a French printer Jean Jannon had re-created and used similar characteristics to Garamond (1580-1635) was for two hundred years named wrongly as Garamond. The typeface was thus found to be Jean Jannon's, revealed to the world in 1927.
So my research took me to Beatrice L. Warde where I thus learnt that she married designer Frederic Warde, Director of printing at the Princeton University Press (1925)

"Clearly polished window" which Beatrice L. Warde believed ideas through typography could be communicated.

I imagine when she married someone into the world of printing, she must of had a fortunate escape from the 1900's, and not becoming the 90% of women who were for the use of domestic service. Beatrice Warde, in my opinion, had a lucky escape!

references used:
http://infoshare1.princeton.edu/rbsc2/ga/unseenhands/printers/warde.html
http://stbride.org/friends/conference/twentiethcenturygraphiccommunication/BeatriceWarde.html
http://www.nenne.com/typography/bw1.html
http://gmunch.home.pipeline.com/typo-L/misc/ward.htm
http://www.guevaradesign.com/garamond/