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Ruari McLean
British typographic designer ()
John David Ruari McDowall Hardie McLean (10 June – 27 March ) was a British typographic designer.[1]
Early life and apprenticeship
Ruari McLean was born in Scotland on 10 June , in Newton Stewart, Galloway.
He was educated at the Dragon School and Eastbourne College.
He was apprenticed in the printing trade at the Shakespeare Head Press, Oxford, where he worked on limited edition fine books.
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He went on to train in Germany and at the Edinburgh School of Printing, and worked at Waterlow and Sons Printing in Dunstable, Bedfordshire and at The Studio magazine. In he joined the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency, later moving to Lund Humphries printing in Bradford, Yorkshire.
McLean was profoundly influenced by the work of Jan Tschichold, the German typographer, and he visited him at his home in Switzerland shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War.
Wartime service
During the war, he served in the Ro
