Alistair Johnson

Alistair Johnson

Alastair Johnston is a notable American book designer, typographer and documentary photographer.

Johnston teaches "Typography and Typographic Design" at the University of California, Berkeley. He has travelled extensively, searching for and documenting vernacular uses of type, signage and naive lettering. He has been the co-owner and designer at [http://www.poltroonpress.com/ Poltroon Press] for over thirty years with Frances Butler - for which the Book Club of California held a retrospective exhibition in 2005, "The Many Faces of Poltroon Press". Johnston is the author of, among others, "Alphabets to Order: The Literature of Nineteenth-century Typefounders' Specimens", published by The British Library.


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