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Today we are inundated with such an immense flood of printed matter that the value of individual work has depreciated, for our harassed contemporaries simply cannot take everything that is printed today. It is the typographer's task to divide up and organize and interpret this mass of printed matter in such a way that the reader will have a good chance of finding what is of interest to him.

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A printed work, which cannot be read, becomes a product without purpose.

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Emil Ruder

Emil Ruder

Born: March 20, 1914
Died: March 13, 1970 (aged 55)
Bio: Emil Ruder was a Swiss typographer and graphic designer, who with Armin Hofmann joined the faculty of the Schule für Gestaltung Basel.

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