Presently a design historian, he has written about the Penguin design-director Hans Schmoller (Monotype Recorder, April 1987), the illustrator Alice B. Woodward and the Glasgow-style designer Talwin Morris. His major study (and the first in English) of the famed German letterer and type designer Rudolf Koch was published in 2000 by Oak Knoll and The British Library. His study of the typographic work of Emil Rudolf Weiss was published in 2013 by the Incline Press and his major work on German graphic designers during the Hitler period is a recent addition to his Website.
Jerry is a member of Letter Exchange, Calligraphy & Lettering Arts Society, Penguin Collectors’ Society (contributor to The Penguin Collector), the Double Crown Club, A TypI and The Art Workers’ Guild. He has lectured on the work of Koch, Ben Shahn, and his own work at Penguin.
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