Overview
After a complete sell-out of the American edition, RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press is releasing a second edition of Alphabet Stories: A Chronicle of Technical Developmentsby famed German calligrapher and typographer, Hermann Zapf. This new edition is enhanced by the addition of a letterpress-printed broadside designed by Zapf. The insert was typeset and printed at the RIT Cary Graphic Arts Collection using its collection of rare metal “Virtuosa” type—Zapf’s elegant script face originally released by Stempel Typefounders in 1952.
This book is the first Hermann Zapf monograph to be typeset in the new Palatino Nova and Palatino Sans digital typefaces issued by Linotype. Written as an anecdotal first-person account, the reader is treated to Zapf's personal recollections of technical breakthroughs. Zapf reveals milestones tracing his education in 1930s Germany, to his work on forefront of computer-aided typesetting in the 1970s, to the tour de force design of a complex calligraphic font—Zapfino in the late ’90s. Vivid reproductions of Zapf's calligraphy, production proofs, typographic specimens, and photographs complete the portrait of one of the most prolific designers of our time.
Alphabet Stories, masterfully printed in color on an uncoated cream-colored paper, includes the illustrated narrative, a plate section, a selected bibliography, and a postscript by David Pankow, curator of the Melbert B. Cary, Jr. Graphic Arts Collection, which maintains one of the most comprehensive American archives of Zapf’s work.
Details
Publisher: RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press (01/2007)
ISBN-13: 978-1-933360-29-4
Binding: Case-bound in cloth with foil stamping, letterpress broadside insert
Pages: 150
Illustrations: 96 color
Size: 7.25 x 11 in.
Shipping Weight: 1.4lb
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Table of Contents
Nuremberg 1918
Inflation in Germany
School Years
Retoucher
Lettering Exercises
Fritz Kredel
Alkor
Musica
Gilgenart
Bordeaux
D. Stempel AG
Novalis
Palatino Roman
Pen and Graver
Das Blumen ABC
August Rosenberger
Aldus Book
Melior
Michaelangelo
Virtuosa
Optima
Manuale Typographicum
Al-ahram Arabic
Hallmark Textura
Program IBM 1130
Prinz-Ludwig-Presse
Orbis-Typographicus
Z-Presse
Edison
Marconi
Aurelia
Rochester Institute of Technology
Apple Computer
Zapf, Burns & Company
Donald Knuth
AMS Euler
Renaissance Antiqua
Zapf Dingbats & Essentials
Zapfino
Optima Nova
Palatino Arabic
Palatino Sans
Illustrations/plate section
List of Alphabets designed by Hermann Zapf
Publications
Postscript by David Pankow
Letterpress broadside in Virtuosa