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Hermann Zapf & his design philosophy : selected articles and lectures on calligraphy and contemporary developments in type design, with illustrations and bibliographical notes, and a complete list of his typefaces / introduction by Carl Zahn.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Tehon Collection Art and Design Z250 .Z323 1987
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Folio Z250 .Z323 1987
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zapf, Hermann.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Zapf, Hermann.
- Type and type-founding--History--20th century.
- Type and type-founding.
- History.
- Calligraphy--History--20th century.
- Calligraphy.
- Printing--Specimens.
- Printing.
- Genre:
- Specimens.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (inscription) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Zapf, Hermann (autograph) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Tehon, Susan (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 4 unnumbered pages, 254 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color), portrait ; 31 cm
- Manufacture:
- Frankfurt, West Germany : Printed by Oehms Druck GmbH.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : Society of Typographic Arts, [1987]
- Contents:
- The brotherhood of calligraphers
- Calligraphy
- Notes on the future of calligraphy
- The calligrapher in our time : a manifesto
- Autobiography in type
- Printing types and books
- Type designing for tomorrow
- The expression of our time in typography
- The changes in letterforms due to technical developments
- The end of classic typography?
- Future developments and alphabet designs
- In honor of the work of Frederic W. Goudy
- The electronic screen and the book
- New typeface designs in the shadow of protection
- A plea for authorized type designs
- Ideas behind my alphabet designs for photocomposition
- The designer in the world of metafont
- Future tendencies in type design: the scientific approach to letterforms
- Public lettering and visual pollution.
- Notes:
- Marginal headings and notes.
- "Since 1948 Hermann Zapf has designed 175 alphabets for handcomposition, for the Linotype typesetting machine, and for photocomposition and digital laser systems. These alphabets are show with illustrations in this book, some of them for the first time."--Dust jacket.
- "For some pencil drawings the screenless Micro Screen method was used. Composition: Text pages in Optima Roman (Berthold mft 4000) by Nagel Fototype, Berlin. Ttle page: Renaissance Roman (Scangraphic)"--Colophon.
- "On the inside of the flaps is a list of the plates that may be referred to while viewing the illustrations."--Dust jacket.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 113-124).
- Local Notes:
- Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.
- Tehon Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- Tehon Collection copy inscribed to Atha Tehon by Hermann Zapf, New York, October 1991.
- Contains:
- Hermann Zapf and his design philosophy.
- ISBN:
- 0941447006
- OCLC:
- 15651880
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