Louis John Pouchée
Recent articles about Louis John Pouchée
James Mosley: A life in objects
Issue 90, Summer 2015
Through his ideas, collecting and dogged research, the former St Bride librarian has shown that printing history can be both lively and opinionated. The world of typography owes him a great debt
Pouchee’s lost alphabets
Issue 15, Winter 1994
Ornament is no longer a crime and there is a
growing enthusiasm for decorative display.
Few contempory display alphabets equal those of Louis John Pouchée for vivacity and invention
Typography’s new priests
Issue 1, Autumn 1990
‘Type90’ brought several hundred typographically preoccupied people to Oxford this summer. Following the successful pattern…
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James Mosley 1935-2025
29 August 2025
Design history, Typography
Catherine Dixon pays tribute to printing librarian, teacher and scholar James Mosley
Mosley was was rarely ‘centre stage’, yet his influence was significant … a popular speaker who wrote seminal texts on typographic history.