Robert Bringhurst
Auteur van The Elements of Typographic Style
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Robert Bringhurst was born October 16, 1946, in the ghetto of South Central Los Angeles and raised in the mountain and desert country of Alberta, Montana, Utah, Wyoming and British Columbia. He spent ten years as an undergraduate, studying physics, architecture and linguistics at the Massachusetts toon meer Institute of Technology, philosophy and oriental languages at the University of Utah, and comparative literature at Indiana University, which gave him a Bachelor of Arts in 1973. He had published two books of poems before entering the writing program at the University of British Columbia, which awarded him an MFA in 1975. From 1977 to 1980 he taught writing and English literature at UBC, and after that, made his living as a typographer. He has also been poet-in-residence and writer-in-residence at several universities in North America and Europe. His book, The Elements of Typographic Style is considered a standard text in its field, and Black Canoe is one of the classics in the field of Native American art history. He received the Macmillan Prize for Poetry in 1975. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
Fotografie: Robert Bringhurst. Photo by Jason Vanderhill (JMV on flickr).
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Nine Visits to the Mythworld: Ghandl of the Qayahl Llaanas (Masterworks of the Classical Haida Mythtellers, Vol. 2) (1816) 76 exemplaren
Peter Koch, Printer: Cowboy Surrealists, Maverick Poets & Pre-Socratic Philosophers (1995) 6 exemplaren
The California tradition in type design : edited by Robert Bringhurst & Peter Rutledge Koch 3 exemplaren
Ten Poems with One Title 2 exemplaren
The Typographic Mind 2 exemplaren
Shovels, shoes, and the slow rotation of letters: A feuilleton in honour of John Dreyfus (1986) 2 exemplaren
Bergschrund 1 exemplaar
Waterfall one 1 exemplaar
Wild language : the Ralph Gustafson lecture, Malaspina University-College, 6 November, 2003 (2006) 1 exemplaar
Learning to Die 1 exemplaar
Cuentos del cuervo: mitos y leyendas de los indios haida (Libros Hiperión) (Spanish Edition) (1998) 1 exemplaar
QUOTATION FROM THE ELEMENTS OF TYPOGRAPHIC STYLE 1 exemplaar
The Stonecutter's Horses 1 exemplaar
The Old and their Knowing 1 exemplaar
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The Form of the Book: Essays on the Morality of Good Design (1975) — Redacteur, sommige edities — 187 exemplaren
Being in Being : The Collected Works of a Master Haida Mythteller (Skaay of the Qquuna (2001) — Vertaler, sommige edities — 34 exemplaren
Parenthesis 17 — Medewerker — 3 exemplaren
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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- Zwicky, Jan (wife)
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- Guggenheim Fellowship
Order of Canada
Simon Fraser University (hon. doctorate)
Rochester Institute of Technology (Frederick Goudy Award)
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