Submitted by lobster_king on Sat, 02/02/2008 - 16:50.
I love a reading like Robert Bringhurst's writings on the principles and tactics of typography. Though it's really not the subject matter here that draws me, so much as the self-reflexivity. Like Mitchell's point about meta-pictures, there is a tension within "The Grand Design" since the ideas that Bringhurst brings up are being (or have been) utilized in the printing of the text itself. I read how a typographer does (or should do) their job; I realize someone has done that job for this very text. (My brain says, "Ah, how clever!") ...So, have they done their job well? read more »
