I just read about Ian's death.

I live in Amsterdam and only just heard. I was shocked and saddened.
We were friends for a long time although we did not see each other very often.

We met at ATypl sitting outside a Café on a freezing cold evening in Frankfurt.
We both wore Boss raincoats, I went back to the hotel wearing his, he wore mine.
We became friends after that.

Ian was affable, charming, a great intellect without being 'retentiv'!.
An outstanding educator and a real larger than life character.
He gave so much of value to his profession. Design education will be much poorer without him.

I still have the book the designed about the various seas around the British Isles.
I was proud that he chose to set it in one of my Foundry typefaces.

We will all miss him.

David Quay
Amsterdam 06 04 13