‘Detail in typography’ out of print
Ash Smith / 2013.05.08
We have sold the last copies of Jost Hochuli’s Detail in typography (2008, reprinted in 2009). Demand for this book continues, but we have decided not to make a reprint.
In Vienna
Ash Smith / 2012.06.07
Next week in Vienna, two events hosted by the Typographische Gesellschaft Austria take place: a workshop with Jost Hochuli (Monday 11 to Friday 15) and a talk by Robin Kinross on ‘Design for meaning’ (Wednesday 13).
Typically Swiss?
Ash Smith / 2011.11.08
Is there still a ‘Swiss typography’. That is the broad theme of the first Tÿpo St.Gallen conference, running from 18 to 20 November.
A waking dream
Ash Smith / 2011.06.09
Every publisher or author’s dream is to see someone reading their book on the bus or underground train. This really happened to us with Jost Hochuli’s Detail in typography.
‘Designing books’: out of print
Ash Smith / 2011.05.27
The original hardback edition (1996) and the subsequent paperback edition (2003, reprinted 2007) of this book have now sold out. Despite its popularity, we have decided to let the book stay out of print now.
St Gallen comes to London (2)
Ash Smith / 2010.03.11
The exhibition was opened last Thursday with Jost Hochuli’s presentation of the topic – a wide-ranging history of book-making in St Gallen.
St Gallen comes to London
Ash Smith / 2010.03.03
The exhibition ‘Book design in St Gallen’ opens this week at the St Bride Library and runs for two short weeks.
Jost Hochuli in London
Ash Smith / 2008.11.05
On Thursday 27 November at 7 pm Jost Hochuli will give a lecture on ‘Systematic book design?’ – the question mark is important here – at the St Bride Foundation.
‘Designing books’ discussed
Ash Smith / 2008.09.17
Twelve years after publication, a new generation of readers is finding ‘the best single volume on the subject’.
‘Detail in typography’ arrived
Ash Smith / 2008.06.11
Copies of Hochuli’s Detail in typography have arrived in London. The book is officially published later this month.
Hochuli and tools for reading
Ash Smith / 2008.05.13
Jost Hochuli, author of Designing books and Detail in typography, is responsible for an exhibition of the remarkable book production of his home town of St Gallen.
‘Designing books’ in paperback
Ash Smith / 2003.05.09
A paperback edition of Jost Hochuli’s long-lasting Designing books is now available in Europe. It will be released in North and South America later in the year.
An interview with Robin Kinross
Ash Smith / 2000.08.21
This interview was recorded in London on 28 May 1999, and published in Slovenian translation in the cultural magazine Emzin’.
Gutenberg Prize for Hochuli
Ash Smith / 1999.03.07
Jost Hochuli has been awarded the City of Leipzig’s Gutenberg Prize for 1999.
Hochuli in Mainz
Ash Smith / 1998.10.22
An exhibition of the Typotron series of booklets, edited and designed by Jost Hochuli, will be on display at the Gutenberg Museum, Mainz, from 07.11.98 to 30.12.98. Marking the fifteenth anniversary of Typotron, the show will include some of Hochuli’s working drawings and original objects represented in the booklets. The invitation card promises: ‘a small, refined and lively presentation awaits you’.