The Scandinavian flavour?
Swedish letterforms and letterforms in Sweden in the 20th Century.
To the less educated, an A is just three sticks, says Eeyore in ‘Winnie-the-Pooh’. But on a lower philosophical level: Does type and design come in different languges (or dialects) or does it speak in a more universal tongue-the common language of human thought?
Christer Hellmark ( born 1946 I is a Swedish book designer and teacher of typography with a background as a journalist and publisher. Author of several books on freedom of the press, journalism and typography, most recently ‘Ord&form’ ( ‘Words&form’ ). Ordfront publ., 2000.
