Born in Marburg/Lahn, Germany, in 1935. Studied at the School of Applied Arts in Wiesbaden with Professor Friedrich Poppl from 1954 to 1958. Almost 40 years as a teacher at the School/University of Applied Arts in Wiesbaden, area of instruction: communication design with emphasis on type and typography. Preferred areas of work: corporate design, type design, type and book graphics.
Numerous international awards and honors, among others from the Type Directors Club, New York, The Art
[...]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,
[...]Dieter Hofrichter, geboren in Mannheim, studierte Angewandte Graphik an der Kunstakademie in Nürnberg; arbeitete als Assistent von Günter Gerhard Lange und Schriftentwerfer im Atelier der H. Berthold AG in München/Taufkirchen. Seit 1999 Schriftentwerfer für die BertholdTypes Ltd.
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
[...]Geboren am 22. Februar 1943 in Mühlheim/Ruhr. Lehre als Schriftsetzer, dann Graphic Design Studium. Ab 1968 verantwortlich für das Berthold Schriftatelier in Taufkirchen und 1990 Künstlerischer Leiter Berthold Types. Seit 1998 selbständig mit seinem eigenen Studio in der Nähe von München. Entwürfe diverser Logos, Signets und Corporate Types u. a. für Allianz, Commerzbank. VW Skoda, Mauser Office, Hoepfner Brauerei, Süddeutsche Zeitung etc.
Senatus BQ, Seneca, Signata, Sorbonne, Vergil and Whittingham are trademarks of Berthold Types Limited.
