Robert Harling (typographer)
Encyclopedia
Robert Henry Harling was a British
typographer
, designer, journalist
and novelist who lived to the age of 98.
He worked for several other newspapers including: Sunday Times, Times Literary Supplement, Financial Times
, both editing, writing, designing layout and typesetting.
United Kingdom
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typographer
Typography
Typography is the art and technique of arranging type in order to make language visible. The arrangement of type involves the selection of typefaces, point size, line length, leading , adjusting the spaces between groups of letters and adjusting the space between pairs of letters...
, designer, journalist
Journalist
A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
and novelist who lived to the age of 98.
Books and other work
- The Letterforms and Type Designs of Eric Gill (1976)
- The Hollow Sunday (1967)
- The Summer Portrait (1979)
- The Endless Colonnade (1958)
- The Enormous Shadow (1955)
- The Dark Saviour (1952)
- The Paper Palace (1951)
- British Gardeners: A Biographical Dictionary (1980)
- editor of Condé NastCondé Nast PublicationsCondé Nast, a division of Advance Publications, is a magazine publisher. In the U.S., it produces 18 consumer magazines, including Architectural Digest, Bon Appétit, GQ, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and Vogue, as well as four business-to-business publications, 27 websites, and more than 50 apps...
’s magazine House & GardenHouse & Garden (magazine)House & Garden was an American shelter magazine published by Condé Nast Publications that focused on interior design, entertaining, and gardening....
(1957- ) - Typefaces "Tea Chest", "Chisel" and the Victorian-style "Playbill" for Sheffield type-foundry Stephenson BlakeStephenson BlakeStephenson Blake was a British Type foundry, based in Sheffield, England. Active from the 19th century until the 1990s, it remained the last active typefoundry in Britain.-Type Founding:...
- designed the periodical Art and Industry (1940)
- editor of The Sunday Telegraph (1961- )
He worked for several other newspapers including: Sunday Times, Times Literary Supplement, Financial Times
Financial Times
The Financial Times is an international business newspaper. It is a morning daily newspaper published in London and printed in 24 cities around the world. Its primary rival is the Wall Street Journal, published in New York City....
, both editing, writing, designing layout and typesetting.
External links
- Obituary in The GuardianThe GuardianThe Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
2 July 2008 (p34) - Obituary in The TimesThe TimesThe Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News International...
3 July 2008 - Obituary in The IndependentThe IndependentThe Independent is a British national morning newspaper published in London by Independent Print Limited, owned by Alexander Lebedev since 2010. It is nicknamed the Indy, while the Sunday edition, The Independent on Sunday, is the Sindy. Launched in 1986, it is one of the youngest UK national daily...
8 July 2008 - Alphabet and Image, Published in Baseline Magazine, 2009