Thirty-five Years of Book Design

In 1990, after seeing what PageMaker – the original ‘desktop publishing’ program – could do, I bought myself an early Apple Mac and set up shop in Cumberland Street in Edinburgh. There was a large sign in the window saying ‘typographer’. It was a statement of intent rather than fact but that was the starting point for producing publicity material and, soon, publications for museums, galleries, art dealers and, more recently, publishers. One job in that interconnected world has, happily, led to another. Here are some books, one for each year, chosen to show the key customers I have worked for over the last thirty-five years. Click on the cover and you can see some page spreads and read something about each publication.

Robert Dalrymple