John Ryder was one of the foremost British book designers of the late 20th century, a man whose long professional career was dedicated to typographical excellence and the virtues of legibility and the well-made book. He believed passionately that the way in which we read a book, the way in which the eye falls upon the printed page, can radically influence our understanding and enjoyment.
"Flowers and Flourishes" includes a facsimile of the author's earlier work, "A Suite of Fleurons", to which has been added holograph notes in the authors hand.

Flowers & flourishes: Including a newly annotated edition of A suite of fleurons

Computers & Technology

John Ryder

Graphics & Design

The Bodley Head

First edition. In an age of computer typesetting and lightning-fast printing, and of continuous efforts to hold down ever-soaring costs, the risk of eroding the legibility of the printed work increases every day. But does legibility matter? John Ryder believes that since it is self-evidently of paramount importance to the reader, legibility must also be the guiding principle of the typographer. His own work over many years is a convincing demonstration that legibility and elegance go hand in hand. In this book Ryder makes a strong plea for the recognition and maintenance of this central principle and discusses its application to the whole process of designing a book, from the choice of an alphabet for the text setting to such finishing touches as margins, headlines and folios. He illustrates his points with visual examples. This book is a fascinating personal statement of great sincerity and conviction by a distinguished practitioner of the art. 77+ 1 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. tall 12mo..

The Case for Legibility by Ryder, John (1979) Hardcover

The Bodley Head, Ltd.

John Ryder's book is a primer for the amateur, from the choice of press and the purchase of type, paper, and ink to the planning, designing, and production of the printed material itself.

Printing for Pleasure

Henry Regnery Company

In Knowledge, Art, and Power: An Outline of a Theory of ExperienceJohn Ryder presents an original theory of experience rooted in the American pragmatic naturalist philosophical tradition. The operative assumption of the book is that a clearer understanding of experience provides a richer conception of human being.Beginning with the Deweyan idea of experience as the mutually constitutive engagement of an individual with her environing conditions, the theory posits that there are three general dimensions that condition all of our experience - cognitive (knowledge), aesthetic (art), and political (power). All other constituents and forms of experience, such as language, emotions, ethics, religion, and others, are conditioned by these three general threads that define the fabric of experience and of human life.

Knowledge, Art, and Power An Outline of a Theory of Experience (Value Inquiry Book Series / Social Philosophy, 346)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Brill/Rodopi

In this collection of 17 papers presented in June 2004, international specialists in American philosophy focus on pragmatist education theory, its philosophical foundations, and its consequences for social, political and educational reconstruction. Topics, gathered under categories relating education to democracy, values, social reconstruction and the self, include the necessity for criticism of democratic education today, Dewey and the necessity for a democratic civil education, Rorty's considerations of philosophy and education, education in the age of cognitive science, education for ethical seriousness, Dewey's post-traditional notions of community and aesthetic experience, art as education, education as reconstruction, Germany's take on Dewey, the question of whether pragmatic political technology is a reasonable possibility, "pragmatism lite," Dewey through Socrates and Buber, pluralism and individualism, ecological consciousness, and the interplay of identity and intersectional selves. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Education for a Democratic Society: Central European Pragmatist Forum. Volume Three (Value Inquiry Book Series 179)

Gert-Ruediger Wegmarshaus (Eds.)

Editions Rodopi BV.