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  • Tags: typography

Item consists of an image of Allan Robb Fleming seated with pen in hand, on a drafting table designing the Financial Post logo.

Item consists of an image of Allan Robb Fleming seated on drafting table, with a pipe, designing the Financial Post logo.

Item consists of a reproduction of a press release in which the Association of Canadian Industrial Designers criticizes CN for choosing an American firm to develop its new logo.

Item consists of a type specimen page from Allan Robb Fleming's research files.

Item consists of a job docket envelope for the CN logo redesign work at Cooper and Beatty.

Item consists of a letter head designed by Allan Robb Fleming for the firm Taber Dulmage and Feheley.

Item consists of four typescript pages from the design department of Cooper and Beatty listing Allan Fleming, Jim Donoahue and others, as well as all corporate clients, and highlighting corporate logo work.

Item consists of a photocopy of Allan Robb Fleming's notes titled "Making Notes", concerning notation in typographic book design.

Two images, one of a sign on a fence and the other of writing on the facade of a building. From contact sheet of photographs taken by Allan Robb Fleming as research. Two frames from lower left hand corner entitled "Let Us Furnish" and "Modern…

Image of the gravestones of Allan who was Allan Rob Fleming's father and Charlie who was Allan Rob Fleming's uncle.

Image of signs at a highway underpass.

Image of the gravestone of George Beal.

Image of a sign in rural area that reads "Parking Camp Sylvan".

Image of a corner of a building with street names carved on each side.

Image of two females sitting on a CN counter handing tickets to a male CN employee.

Image of CN rail yard with CN freight cars and automobiles all bearing the CN logo created by Allan Robb Fleming.

Item consists of a three page handwritten letter from Carl Dair to Allan Robb Fleming concerning the merits of different typographic fonts.

Item consists of a typescript letter from Beatrice Warde of the Monotype Corporation London to Allan Robb Fleming regarding a layout.

Item consists of a printed specimen of Allan Robb Fleming design improvements to Eskimo Syllabics, commissioned by Dorset Print Collective.

Item consists of a poster designed by Allan Robb Fleming for an exhibition, organized by Allan Robb Fleming and Franklyn Smith, of the typography of German type designer Hermann Zapf at Cooper and Beatty.