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
[...]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
[...]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 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
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