"Looking at a beautiful typographical design," he told an interviewer in 1976, "is like listening to music."
Here he expanded his range of publications and experimented with typographical design.
It is considered a good choice for expressing classic beauty or formal tradition in typographical design and is generally held to be a good book face.
BCG designed for print initially, producing experiments in typographical design as well as taking on commercial projects.
The most important figure in this group was Iliazd, whose radical typographical designs visually echo the publications of the Dadaists.
Foss also brought his mind to bear on the typographical design of the OUP's music publications at this period.
The Swiss railway timetable is a masterpiece of typographical design, if not what you could call a rattling good read.
A book on 'The Construction of Letter Forms' containing some of his typographical designs, was published after his death, in 1959.
Instead it concentrated on applied graphic art and typographical design.
He received the George Polk Memorial Award in 1957 for his contribution to American journalism through typographical design.