Romek marber graphics design
Romek marber graphics design group
Free graphic design images!
The type for Marber’s Penguin Crime covers was set by printer Desmond Jeffery.
RM: I knew Desmond well, because I worked in Harley Street, and he had his printing press in Marylebone Lane, a narrow lane between Wigmore Street and Oxford Street.
I used Desmond for setting the type for all the Penguin covers. He was the only person in Britain who had Standard [Akzidenz Grotesk], which was a bit worn, of course. He had a template, which is to say he had a chase already set up.
Romek marber graphics design
I just gave him the title and some indication of how the lines were going be to formed, and he would send me back a proof.
JLW: Did you just walk there?
RM: Yes, round the corner.
JLW: What was it printed on?
RM: [Jeffery] did it on a proofing paper, specially coated for proofs, which were then pasted up as part of the artwork.
JLW: Good quality?
RM: Very good quality.
Every printer had a thing called a proofing press. He would print on this beautiful kind of satin paper. Of course, one re