Unjustified texts by Robin Kinross

In writings gathered over twenty-five years Robin Kinross illuminates both the process of designing text-matter and its consequences. This selection of his shorter writings — including some previously unpublished —is centered around themes of editorial design, information design, the fate of Modernism, or the work of critical Modernist designers. Other topics covered in the book include newspapers, telephone books, paperbacks, book indexes, uppercase and lowercase, and the question of what constitutes a typeface. The out-of-print pamphlet Fellow Readers (1994) is reprinted in full. A separate section of illustrations with extended critical captions presents these themes in a direct and accessible way. Kinross introduces the book with a fresh essay that recalls just how these pieces came into existence. The book presents an unexpected body of writing, which stakes out fresh territory between the purely academic and the merely journalistic.