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Favorsky (Ôàâîðñêèé) Vladimir Andreevich
(1886–1964)
Vladimir Favorsky is a key name in Russian graphic art and book design of the twentieth century. He was instrumental to the revival of wood engraving as a creative art technique (not just the means of print reproduction), and the concept of a book as an integrated visual entity. In his book designs Favorsky developed a distinctive approach to lettering. His compositions, and the very letter-forms were heavily influenced by his wood-engraving style. Lettering perfectly integrated with the images played a major role in his cover designs. Letters of varying size, style and nature interacted within the same line, or even word. Favorsky, a profound thinker and art theorist, developed his own concept of lettering design. His classification of letter-forms is based on the spatial attributes of type, and distinguishes between the “profile”-, “volume”- and “space”-related aspects of the glyph.
USSR, 1975, «The Tale of Igor's Campaign»
USSR, 1966, 
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