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Anthony Froshaug (1920–1984) was an English typographer, designer and teacher, born in London to a Norwegian father and English mother.
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Influenced by ideas of European modernism, particularly the work of Jan Tschichold, Froshaug is considered by some to be the most convincing exponent of modern typography in Britain.[1]
Anthony Froshaug's archive is located at the University of Brighton Design Archives.[2] A significant collection of Froshaug’s printed ephemera, representing his work between 1945 and 1965 is held at St Bride Library in London. This material originally formed the basis of a retrospective exhibition held at Watford College of Technology in 1965. St Bride Library also has a number of original letterpress formes relating to Froshaug’s work.
Education
editFroshaug attended Charterhouse School and studied book production and wood engraving at the Central School of Arts & Crafts from 1937 to 1939.
Career
editDesign and typography
editOn leaving the Central in 1939 he began to practice as a freelance graphic designer and typographer. As a typographer, he has been viewed as unusual in running his own small (un-private) press, including two periods of printing in Cornwall (1949–52, 1954–7). He worked with Alan Kitching.
Teaching
editFroshaug was a natural teacher: he taught typography, first at the Central School (1948–9, 1952–3), then at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Ulm (1957–61),[3] the Royal College of Art in London (1961–4), Watford School of Art (1964–6); in 1970 he returned to teach (part-time) at the Central School, continuing there until illness forced him to stop. He later also taught at the London College of Printing Department of Art and Design from 1980–82.
As both a practitioner and a teacher, Froshaug preferred an experimental workshop environment with opportunities for discussion, rather than more formal learning structures.[4]
He is buried on the eastern side of Highgate Cemetery.
Further reading
edit- Froshaug, Anthony, Typography is a Grid - first published in The Designer, no. 167, January 1967
- Kinross, Robin, ed. Anthony Froshaug: Typography & texts/Documents of a life, London: Hyphen Press, 2000
- Kinross, Robin, Technics and Ethics: The Work of Anthony Froshaug, Michael Burke, Mark Holt, Simon Johnston, Hamish Muir [Editors]: OCTAVO. JOURNAL OF TYPOGRAPHY 86.1. London: Eight Five Zero, August 1986
References
edit- ^ wwword on design: ANTHONY FROSHAUG
- ^ University of Brighton Design Archives, Anthony Froshaug Archive
- ^ Ulm 4, Quarterly bulletin of the Hochschule für Gestaltung, Ulm, c. April 1959
- ^ Anthony Froshaug on the Archives Hub