Anyone read the article in this month’s Print about the efforts of the American Typographers Association to control type production? Was interesting and comical.
Typophile
Stop Making Type
Any way to read it on the internet or to get any scans of the page?
Stop making music! Stop writing books!
So this was a history piece? Or have these guys been raised from the grave?
Cheers, Si
Who is the American Typographers Association? Google and Wikipedia don’t seem to have heard about it.
According to Live Search
http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=%22American+Typographers+Associati...
they published the “Type Talks” publication in 1945. I assume you may need to consult with real books, and not the web for more info :-(
Seem to be later issues of “Type Talks” available through Amazon, these list “Advertising Typographers” as the publisher. Perhaps the ATA became the AT?
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