Hyphen Press

Hyphen Press publishes books on design – in the largest sense of the word. Situated in London, our books are mostly produced on the European continent, in the attempt to find good standards of industrial craft. We cherish writing that is lively, precise, free of jargon; pictures that are realistic, vivid. We try to make books that are good for the reader. (June 2018: go here for an overview of Hyphen Press activities.)

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Burnhill’s ornaments

robin / 2026.11.05

In the early 1960s Peter Burnhill completed designs for a set of ornaments for the Monotype Corporation. For those too young to remember, an ‘ornament’ was a type or a ‘sort’ carrying an image that could be combined with other pieces, of the same design or as another part of a set, to make a larger pattern.

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