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The Society of Printers is the oldest graphic design organization in the country and it’s interesting what and who had their attention—and what and who didn’t

Rudimentary versions of grid systems existed since the medieval times

*In Lance Hidy’s Posters (1983)

and modernist designers

The Fourth Quarter historyoftypedesignlithos ” A rare bit ofBooks about clubs can leave people who arent members of the club feeling lost. Why would any normal person care about a battle over dues or what was served for dinner in January 1982? We cant answer that question. This book hits all the boring marks. But it is not boring. It is a record of what designers, publishers, printing salespeople, curators, and librarians in Boston were thinking about and doing between 1980 and 2005. The Society of Printers is