Westvaco Inspirations for Printers, No. 96 spacetype Rather than avant-garde typographic experimentation

Rather than avant-garde typographic experimentation

This one is a threefer: writer and activist Langston Hughes

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An exacting classical typographer working with the tools of his time to make timeless books for the trade

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Westvaco Inspirations for Printers, No. 96 spacetype Rather than avant-garde typographic experimentationLaunched in 1925 by the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company, Westvaco Inspirations for Printers served as a premier promotional house organ showcasing paper stocks, ink capabilities, and diverse printing processes. Before Bradbury Thompsons modernist art direction began in 1939, issues from the mid 1930s (like this one) functioned primarily as rich, eclectic trade anthologies. Rather than avant garde typographic experimentation, these layouts