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Typography Tuesday
This week we present a selection of designs by our favorite type designer and calligrapherHermann Zapf (1918-2015) from the 1987 publication Hermann Zapf and His Design Philosophy published in Chicago by the Society of Typographic Arts (STA) in memory of the great Scottish-American type designer and long-time design director for the Ludlow Typograph Company Robert Hunter Middleton (1898-1985), who provided the original idea for the book. Since 1948, Hermann Zapf designed over 175 alphabets for hand-composition, for the Linotype typesetting machine, and for photocomposition and digital laser systems. The book brings together selected articles and lectures on calligraphy and contemporary developments in type design by Zapf, with illustrations, some presented for the first time, bibliographical notes and a complete list of Zapf’s typefaces.
Although Zapf spent the majority of his career in Germany, he was an honorary member of STA and was a professor of typographic computer programming, the first such position of its kind in the world, at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) from 1977-1987. Click on the images for details on the designs.
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ANNA SIMONS, PART 2
This week we present the next ten of the twenty numbered plates in Titel und Initialen für die Bremer Presse, a specimen book of the titling and initials by the German calligrapher and type designer Anna Simons (1871–1951) for Willy Wiegand’sBremer Presse, printed letterpress in Munich at the Bremer Presse in an edition of 220 copies in 1926. We highlighted the first ten plates a couple of weeks ago.
For 15 years, Simons’s Arts & Crafts-inspired designs were important elements in the aesthetics of the Bremer Presse, and Weigand celebrated her contributions in this portfolio set of specimens during the middle of their collaboration. The press closed in 1934 and its assets were liquidated the following year. The studio building was destroyed in bombings during WWII. Simons, however, continued to teach and work in Germany through the war before her death in 1951.
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Pavillion des Tabacs. 1931. P. Bosse.
78 3/8 x 57 ¼ in./199 x 145.4 cm
An electric-pink neon glow surrounds a stylized bust of a smoking African woman in a convergence of modern and traditional aesthetics. The Exposition Coloniale of Paris, held in 1931, attempted to paint France’s colonial empire in a positive light by demonstrating mutually beneficial cultural exchange. The expo attracted between 7 and 9 million visitors from around the world.
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Modiano. 1933. Franz Lenhart.
39 1/8 x 55 in./99.3 x 139.6 cm
For the Modiano brand of prefabricated rolling paper tubes, Lenhart plays us an engaging optical game of silhouettes: the black outfit of the Garbo-like femme fatale like a cutout against the green background, the blouse and the hand cut out in turn from the black; standing out from both, the warmly glowing face and the white cigarette. Most elegant! Born in Bavaria, Lenhart studied in Italy and settled there permanently in 1922 to work and teach.
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Philippossian Automobiles. 1920. Charles Loupot.
50 ¾ x 35 3/8 in./128.8 x 90 cm
A flame-haired Femme Fatale, dressed in black, launches this midnight-blue beast of an auto into the foggy night: a masterpiece! Exceptionally rare, this poster finds Loupot at the absolute apex of his transition period between Switzerland and France, between domestic traditionalism and aggressive Modernist experimentation. According to Loupot’s son, Jean-Marie, until this point Loupot was hired by printers; this was likely his first direct commission from the advertiser (alongside his wildly successful Philippossian Cigarettes, see PAI-LXX, 443). The typeface, with which he’d been experimenting with since at least the previous year (see “Plantol,” PAI-XXI, 270) now achieves a refined state of Deco precision. This poster appears to be the sole remnant of any flirtation the advertiser Charles Philippossian had with the auto industry. However, it’s clear that the brilliance of this piece served as Loupot’s introduction to an entirely new market, as a creator of the new Art Deco aesthetic. In the following years, he’d create superb work for Swiss Grand Prix autos and motorcycles; Austin Tractors; and Voisin Autos, before defining the industrial Art Deco aesthetic at the 1925 Expo, and with classics such as “Stop-Fire.” An important work by this artist. Exceptionally rare.
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on a weekend in december 2014 i visited beautiful cologne and the esl tv studios where i designed the trophies during the winter season finals. it was such an exciting, nice, amazing weekend! though i’m not a guy made for a live show… hahaha…
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in december ‘14, i designed one of the windows of my favourite optician in nuremberg - it was such a pleasure (but also so damn cold this day)!
we took a quote by edgar allan poe. love the colours, it perfectly fits with the shop.
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文字渦で文字酔い 目を閉じると言霊のエコー .
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OUGD505- Research Into Ilia Zdanevich.
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Tézzo SUZUKI.
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House of X / Dawn of X / Reign of X / Destiny of X.
From 2019 to the present day, the logos and brand marks designed for Marvel’s X-franchise.
With the next phase in Marvel’s X-Men cycle, Destiny of X, releasing this spring, I thought it’d be a good opportunity to showcase the family of logos to date.
T-Shirts for Use–Less / Arne Meyer
An experiment on social acceptability of consumers focusing on sustainable fashion design and marketing strategies. In collaboration with fashion designer Lisa Rammelkamp.
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