About this eBook
Martha Fleming, one of Allan Fleming’s three children, introduces readers to ‘Allan Fleming's Many Worlds’, setting the scene for the group of scholars who contributed articles to this edition. She also presents a useful chronology of her father's life and work, both personal and professional.
Robert Tombs, Devin Crawley, Donna Braggins, Carol Payne and Brian Donnelly each contribute pieces that document Fleming’s design career, particularly in the areas of book, magazine, and logo design.
Also reproduced are Allan Fleming's ‘Autobiographical Fragments and Canadian Nationalisms’, lending Fleming's own voice to the volume, and the 1965 ‘Ontario Hydro Symbol Document’, which provides readers with a sample of Fleming's design work.
About the author
Donna Braggins, RGD, MA, is a Toronto design consultant and professor of illustration at Sheridan College. Currently a board member of the Advertising and Design Club of Canada, she is a former art director of Maclean’s magazine and former president of the National Magazine Awards Foundation.
Devin Crawley is a librarian and webmaster for Ottawa Public Library. He graduated from the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information Studies in 2004, where he pursued an interest in book history and discovered the remarkable versatility of Allan Fleming.
Contributing editor Brian Donnelly is a professor at Sheridan Institute, Oakville, Ontario, in the York Sheridan joint Bachelor of Design program. He teaches design history and critical theory, and is continuing his ongoing research into graphic design history in Canada.
Martha Fleming is an artist, curator and academic. She lives in the United Kingdom, where she has been a fellow of the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts and other research institutions. She is one of Allan Fleming’s three children.
A photo studies scholar and former curator, Carol Payne is assistant director of the Art History unit at Carleton University. She is completing a book on the NFB Still Photography Division (1941–1984) and its construction of Canadian identity.
Robert Tombs is an award-winning graphic designer who has taught at Yale and NSCAD and was the senior designer at Cornell University Press. He has lectured about Fleming at the invitation of the American Association of University Presses.
