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Typography Tuesday

Here are a few more alphabet designs as reproduced in ABZ, edited by Julian Rothenstein and Mel Gooding, and published in San Francisco by Chronicle Books in 2003 (an earlier edition was published by Shambhala in 1993 as Alphabets & Other Signs). The alphabets from top to bottom are:

From a sign-writer's manual, UK, ca. 1900.

Untitled type designed by Dutch graphic artist André Vlaanderen (1881–1955) .

Lowercase Slender Roman letters from Hoffmann's Schriftatlas, Julius Hoffmann Verlag, Stuttgart, Germany, 1930.

Untitled alphabet by an unknown designer, Hungary ca. 1930.

Alphabet design from the sign-writer's manual Modèles de lettres pour peintre en bâtiments, France, early 1900s.

1935 typeface design by Morris Fuller Benton (1872-1948).

Gothic Special wood type designed for Hamilton Wood Type in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, 1906.

Bifur, designed in 1928/9 by A. M. Cassandre (1901-1968).

Peignot, designed by A. M. Cassandre in 1937.

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Typography Tuesday

Last month, the Milwaukee Public Library's Arts & Media Department held its first Art Book Club session. Intended as an informal art book appreciation club that meets once a month in the Art, Music, and Recreation room, each session explores a different theme by looking at the wide variety of art materials in the collection. The collection is historical, non-circulating, and vast. I attended and spent an hour and a half mesmerized by the array of luscious materials presented.

There was design, architecture, fashion, and much more. As a type nerd, I was especially drawn to the several late 19th- and early 20th-century type specimen books on the tables. Here, for example, are some pages of chromatic initials by various European and American companies from Schriften Atlas, compiled by Ludwig Petzendorfer and published in Stuttgart by Julius Hoffmann in 1898.

MPL held its second Art Book Club session on the theme of "Animals" last night, but I missed it because I was conducting an evening instruction session. Dang! But I'll be attending future sessions when I can and I'll keep y'all apprised.

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