Oswald Cooper saw letter designers as "sad experimentists" who forever aim at the stars, forever over-shoot the mark, contrive the types we want today and will not want tomorrow." Proprietor of Bertsch & Cooper, typographers, he was not only one of the foremost typographers of his time and a prime influence on Chicago lettering and design, but a writer of wit and distinction. The Oz Cooper Book was issued as a labor of love by The Society of Typographic Arts. 27 Chicago Designer founder: 1936-1937. STA Fellow 1936

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