I DON'T CREATE ART, I HELP PEOPLE TO READ. LEON URBANSKI'S VIEWS ON THE CREATING OF TYPOGRAPHIC LAYOUT OF BOOKS (Nie robie sztuki, pomagam czytac. Poglady Leona Urbanskiego na temat ksztaltowania szaty typograficznej ksiazki)

• Authors: Repucho Ewa
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The paper presents the views of Leon Urbanski (1926-1998), a distinguished Polish typographer, on the development of book typographic layout, as well as the artist's inspirations - his fascination with the word, book history, classic typography and oriental art. The authoress examines Urbanski's attitude towards the typographic profession and the main principles of creating graphic layouts of books, e.g. the duty to thoroughly learn, understand and accept the content of the designed book and then to look for the most appropriate form for the presented content. So far there has been no attempt to carry out a comprehensive academic analysis of Urbanski's work. Collecting the artist's scattered oeuvre and thus saving it from obscurity is now becoming a necessary and increasingly urgent task.

Keywords

EN

TYPOGRAPHIC LAYOUT; URBANSKI LEON

Discipline

• ARTS_&_ARCHITECTURE: ARTS & ARCHITECTURE

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego
• Journal: Roczniki Biblioteczne
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 53
• Pages: 237-247
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Repucho Ewa

• Ewa Repucho, Uniwersytet Wroclawski. Instytut Informacji Naukowej i Bibliotekoznawstwa, pl. Uniwersytecki 9/13, 50-137 Wroclaw, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10PLAAAA081614