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In this reflective autobiography, Rosemary Sassoon, a leading expert on handwriting and typography, looks back on her long and varied career, paying special attention to her unorthodox progression through a variety of fields. She details the route that took her from design to the educational and medical aspects of handwriting problems, then on to research and a PhD and finally to working in the area of legibility in type design. In telling the story of an unusual and unusually successful life, Sassoon takes up a number of philosophical questions about what it is that comes together to form our characters, and what role chance and coincidence play in our lives.



Table of Contents
Early life and design work
Rosemary Sassoon Changing direction
Rosemary Sassoon The wider implications of handwriting problems
Rosemary Sassoon A stroke, getting older and some conclusions
Rosemary Sassoon

By Accident or Design: Challenges and

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      Publisher: Intellect Books
      Publication Date: 15/04/2018
      ISBN13: 9781783208661, 978-1783208661
      ISBN10: 178320866X

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      In this reflective autobiography, Rosemary Sassoon, a leading expert on handwriting and typography, looks back on her long and varied career, paying special attention to her unorthodox progression through a variety of fields. She details the route that took her from design to the educational and medical aspects of handwriting problems, then on to research and a PhD and finally to working in the area of legibility in type design. In telling the story of an unusual and unusually successful life, Sassoon takes up a number of philosophical questions about what it is that comes together to form our characters, and what role chance and coincidence play in our lives.



      Table of Contents
      Early life and design work
      Rosemary Sassoon Changing direction
      Rosemary Sassoon The wider implications of handwriting problems
      Rosemary Sassoon A stroke, getting older and some conclusions
      Rosemary Sassoon

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