The long-awaited reprint of Jan Middendorp’s Dutch Type, which was published in 2004 and sold-out about four years later. This reprint, published by Middendorp under his Druk Editions label, came out on October 1st, 2018. In Dutch Type, Middendorp presents a comprehensive overview of type design and lettering in the Netherlands, tracing back its origins to work by punchcutters, type designers and lettering artists from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries. Partly based on dozens of interviews, the book also aims to give insight into the motives and methods of the first generations of digital type designers, featuring published and unpublished typefaces, as well as sketches, studies, and samples of unknown lettering work.Language: EnglishAuthor: Jan MiddendorpDesigners: Bart de Haas and Peter VerheulPublisher: Druk EditionsEdition: second, illustrated, 3000 copiesDetails: offset print (color)Binding: hardcoverDimensions: 230 × 280 mmPages: 320
Published by the University of Split, Croatia in 2018: Osnove oblikovanja pisma, a book on type-design fundamentals by Dr. Nikola Djurek and Dr. Frank E. Blokland. On the one hand it combines elements of Blokland’s calligraphy course book from 1990 with his more recent research into the origins of the harmonics, patterns and dynamics in movable Latin type. On the other hand it contains information from Djurek’s PhD dissertation on the history of, and conventions for, Croatian diacritics combined with his ongoing research on the history of Croatian scripts (Glagolitic, Cyrillic, Latin).Language: CroatianAuthors: Frank E. Blokland and Nikola DjurekDesigner: Nikola DjurekPublisher: University of SplitEdition: first, illustrated, 500 copiesDetails: offset print (black plus red) on 130 grams Munken Print CreamBinding: hardcoverDimensions: 175 × 240 mmPages: 168
In Reviving Type Nóra Békés and Céline Hurka describe and discuss their empirical type-revival processes. Their research can be considered as a sophisticated attempt to calibrate mind and eye. The result provides in-depth insight in their revival processes, forming a guide for further research into the fundamentals of historical type, and it functions as a cookbook for those who want to transfer their findings into a digital type revival. The book is very useful in education: it does not dictate how to approach the matter, but it contains an honest report with investigations, questions, successes, failures, and, consequently and inevitably, newly generated questions.Language: EnglishAuthors and designers: Céline Hurka and Nóra BékésPublisher: Acute PublishingEdition: first, illustrated, 800 copiesDetails: offset print (black plus blue)Binding: hardcoverDimensions: 175 × 240 mmPages: 158
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The Eternal Letter comprises a series of essays by some of the most highly regarded practitioners in the fields of typography, lettering, and stone carving. They discuss the subtleties of the classical Roman capital letter itself, different iterations of it over the years, and the work of famous typographers and craftsmen. The essays cover such topics as efforts to calculate a geometric formulation of the Trajan letters; the recalculation of their proportions by early typefounders; the development and astonishing popularity of Adobe Trajan; type and letter designs by Father Edward M. Catich, Frederic W. Goudy, Eric Gill, Jan van Krimpen, Hermann Zapf, Matthew Carter, and others; the influence of Trajan in Russia; and three generations of lettercarvers at the John Stevens Shop in Newport, Rhode Island. Additional essays about modern typefaces (including Matinia, Senatus, and Penumbra) are contributed by the designers of these typefaces.Language: EnglishDesign: Linda FlorioPublisher: The mit PressEdition: second, illustrated, * copiesDetails: offset print (color)Binding: hardcoverDimensions: 235 × 300 mmPages: 270