Aldo Novarese – born 29.6.1920 in Pontetura Monferrato, Italy, died 16.9.1995 in Turin, Italy – type designer, teacher.
1931-33: Attends the Scuola Arteri Stampatori in Turin, where he learns woodcut, copper engraving and lithography. 1933-36: attends the Scuola Tipografica Guiseppe Vigliandi Paravia in Turin. 1936: joins the Nebiolo type foundry in Turin as a draftsman. 1938: is awarded a gold medal in the national Ludi Juveniles art competition.
1948-58: teaches graphic drawing at the
[...]Georg Trump – born 10. 7. 1896 in Brettheim, Germany, died 21. 12. 1985 in Munich, Germany – graphic artist, typographer, type designer, painter, teacher.
1912–14: studies at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Stuttgart under J. V. Cissarz and from 1919–23 under F. H. E. Schneidler. 1921: assistant at the school. 1923–26: ceramic artist in Italy. 1926–29: professor at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Bielefeld. 1930–35: works with the H. Berthold AG type foundry in Berlin and from 1937 onwards with the C.
[...]Lucian Bernhard – born 15. 3. 1883 in Stuttgart, Germany, died 29. 5. 1972 in New York, USA – graphic artist, illustrator, painter, type designer, interior designer, teacher. Born as Emil Kahn, he assumes his pseudonym in 1905. Mostly self-taught, he studied briefly at the Akademie iin Munich.
1901: moves to Berlin. 1903: wins a poster competition for Priester matches. 1904: art director of the Deutsche Werkstätten für Handwerkskunst. 1910: works with Hans Sachs on the publication of the
[...]Martin Wilke was born in 1903 in Berlin, went to school in Stettin and Stargard in Pommern, studied handcrafts and fine arts for two years in Stettin and spent another two years attending the classes of Professor Emil Orlik at the State Museum of Fine Arts in Berlin.
Wilke was initially interested in painting, drawing, and typeface design, but his tendency toward typefaces gradually overshadowed the others. Inflation eventually made further study impossible for him. He showed his modest
[...]Designer Erik Spiekermann created the following fonts: Berliner Grotesk® BQ (1913), Lo-Type® BQ (1914 ,this font has been adapted from the original for use in photosetting applications), ITC Officina Sans® (1990), ITC Officina Serif® (1990).
Please take a look at the personal designer portrait of Erik Spiekermann.
Albert Boton – born 17. 4. 1932 in Paris, France – type designer, graphic designer, teacher.
1952–55: trains at the Troy studio in Paris. Attends a course in calligraphy at the Ecole Estienne in Paris. 1955–57: type designer for the Deberny & Peignot type foundry in Paris under Adrian Frutiger and Ladislas Mendel. 1957–58: works in the graphics department of the Technès design studio. 1958–66: type designer and graphic designer for the Hollenstein studio in Paris. 1966–68: works for the
[...]Gustav Jaeger, son of a printer, studied at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach am Main. An enthusiast for type and typography from an early age, he started his career at the Bauer typefoundry, where he developed type specimens promoting the work of Konrad Bauer and Walter Baum. Encouraged by the former, he designed contemporary 1970s display types for H. Berthold AG. He progressed to text types, the first of which, Seneca® BQ, was released by Berthold in 1977. Many others followed,
[...]Designer Hermann Hoffmann (born in Hildesheim, died 1926 in Berlin) created the font Block® BQ (1908) and Berthold Herold Reklameschrift™ (1904).
Designer Nicholas Kis designed the font Kis™ in 1690.
Designer Karl Klauss (born 1888 in Maichingen, died 1956 in Stuttgart) designed the font Arkona® BQ in 1935.
Designer Günter Gerhard Lange designed the following fonts: Arena New® BQ (1951–54), Berthold Script® BQ (1977), Berthold Bodoni Old Face® BQ (1983), Boulevard® BQ (1955), Berthold Calson 471® BQ (1977), Champion™ BQ (1957), Concorde® BQ (1969), Concorde Nova® BQ (1975), El Greco® BQ (1964), Franklin Antiqua® BQ (1976), Berthold Garamond® BQ (1972), Imago® BQ (1982), Solemnis™ (1953), Berthold Walbaum® Book BQ (1975), Berthold
[...]Born 10. 5. 1949 in Hagen. Musician, composer and designer. Hans Reichel created the font Barmeno® BQ in 1983.
Jaguar (1964)Poster (1927)
Beton is a trademark of Bauer Types.
AG Book, AG Old Face, AG Schoolbook, Agora, Aja, Akzidenz-Grotesk, Arbiter, Arena New, Ariston, Arkona, Arrighi, Augustea, Barmeno, Bellevue, Berliner Grotesk, Berthold Baskerville, Berthold Baskerville Book, Berthold Bodoni, Berthold City, Berthold Englische Schreibschrift, Berthold Garamond, Berthold Kis, Berthold Standard, Berthold Walbaum, Berthold Walbaum Standard, Berthold-Script, Block and Block Berthold are trademarks of Berthold Types Limited.
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