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Optical Letter Spacing

Optical Letter Spacing

For new printing systems

David Kindersley
Edited by Lida Lopes Cardozo Kindersley

A reprint of the original work from the 1950s showing how David Kindersley worked out a formula for typesetting systems that automatically finds the correct letter spacing

Apprenticeship

Apprenticeship

The necessity of learning by doing

Lida Lopes Cardozo Kindersley & Martin Gay Ford
Forward by HRH The Prince of Wales

The continuing success of the workshop and her belief in the value of apprenticeship has convinced Lida of the urgent need to draw attention to this endangered practice

Oxford Handwriting Practice

Oxford Handwriting Practice

Lida Kindersley

14 Booklets, 16 pp each.

Letters Slate Cut

Letters Slate Cut

David Kindersley & Lida Lopes Cardozo

Workshop philosophy and practice in the making of lettters. Fully illustrated with examples of their work in slate

The Cardozo Kindersley Workshop

The Cardozo Kindersley Workshop

A guide to commissioning work

Lida Lopes Cardozo Kindersley

This book aims to throw some light on the process of commissioning lettering, clearly setting out the triangular relationship between patron, artist and material

Letters For The Millenium

Letters For The Millenium

Why we cut letters in stone

Emma Lloyd-Jones & Lida Lopes Cardozo Kindersley

Why do we cut letters in stone? To make them last. Why do we want to make them last? This book explores this question, and the value and significance or lettercutting

The Kindest Cut Of All

The Kindest Cut Of All

Lida Lopes Cardozo Kindersley & Michael Wheeler

The making of gravestones in the Kindersley Workshop

Kindersley At Addenbrooke's Hospital

Kindersley At Addenbrooke's Hospital

About care for people and beauty

W Graham Cannon & Lida Lopes Cardozo Kindersley

Art in hospitals is now seen as important to the morale of both patients and staff. The hospital approached David Kindersley in the 1960s and began a long collaboration which continues to this day

ABC David Kindersley

ABC David Kindersley

A life of letters

Introduction by Fiona MacCarthy with contributions from Julian Spalding, Michael Harrison, Eiichi Kono & Lida Lopes Cardozo

Catalogue to the exhibition held at Kettle's Yard Cambridge and Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Summer 2000

Lasting Letters

Lasting Letters

Edited by Rosamond McKitterick & Lida Lopes Cardozo

A history of the Benedictine monks of St Albans Abbey from 1077 to 1401, followed by an account of the archaelogical dig. The book explains why abbots were re-buried, and how their names were carved in the slate that covers their new grave

Stephen's History of Saints

Stephen's History of Saints

Stephen Pepler & Lottie Hoare

David Kindersley 1915-1995

David Kindersley 1915-1995

Letters to an apprentice

Eric Gill

Handwriting Sheets

Handwriting Sheets

Patrick Barry

Graphic Sayings

Graphic Sayings

David Kindersley

Pure Silk Printed Scarf

Pure Silk Printed Scarf

Cream and black with gold detail

The letters are Caroline miniscule from the 9th centuary as is the poem by Hrabanus Maurus, Archbishop of Mainz

Linen Tea Towels

Linen Tea Towels

Two striking alphabet designs by the country's leading post-war letter-carver and typeface designer, the late David Kindersley, have been printed onto linen to make unusual tea towels

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