{"id":1290,"date":"2025-12-23T16:20:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T16:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/journal\/?p=1290"},"modified":"2025-12-23T21:06:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T21:06:22","slug":"issue-59-3-james-mosley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/journal\/issue-59-3-james-mosley\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor James Mosley, a Memoir"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Issue 59.3<\/h5>\n

Word | Image | Space | Materiality | Experience<\/a><\/p>\n

Beyond (Type)Face Value: A Systematic Literature Review Examining Design Factors Influencing the Legibility and Readability of Typography<\/a><\/p>\n

Scripts in Dialogue: Reinterpreting Visible Language Covers through Bilingual Design Workshops in Kuwait<\/a><\/p>\n

Constructing the Hypertangible Novel: Writing and Design as Process<\/a><\/p>\n

Sensational Design: Layout and Display Typography in the Visual Rhetoric of Information Disorder<\/a><\/p>\n

The Visual Language of Textile Tickets in 20th-Century British India: A Collection from B. Taylor and Co.<\/a><\/p>\n

Augmented Reality for Campus Wayfinding: Enhancing Navigation Efficiency and Student Social Engagement \u2014 A Case Study of Leeds University Union<\/a><\/p>\n

Professor James Mosley, a Memoir<\/p>\n

Professor Michael Twyman<\/a><\/p>\n

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Professor James Mosley, a Memoir<\/h1>\n

Eric Kindel<\/h3>\n

Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, University of Reading, UK (e.t.kindel[at]reading.ac.uk)<\/h4>\n
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Excerpt:<\/span> James Mosley, who died on 25 August 2025, was a historian of letterforms, type, typography, and printing. From 1958 until 2000 he was librarian of the St\u00a0Bride Printing Library in London, and from 1960 until 2021 he taught at University of Reading in what became the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication. Underpinning both roles was Mosley\u2019s peerless scholarship, which was both expansive and distinguished\u00a0by the particular attention he devoted to cultures of letterforms in Britain and two other countries for which he felt a great affection, Italy and France. As teacher, advisor, and mentor to students and colleagues at Reading, he brought to these roles his knowledge and the exemplary research, writing, and publishing that were features of it. The remarks that follow offer a brief account of Mosley\u2019s work at the place of learning where he taught for more than six decades, with the intention of memorializing his contributions and their lasting value.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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