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Manuale Zapficum
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Manuale Zapficum
Price: $180.00
Manuale Zapficum, the new limited edition book, commemorates the ninetieth birthdays of typographers Hermann Zapf and Gudrun Zapf von Hesse through beautiful typeface specimens set in homage to the classic design of Hermann Zapf's masterpiece, his 1968 Manuale Typographicum. The 20 specimen designs in the book are based upon quotes about the couple's oeuvre, each typeset in Zapf faces and letterpress printed by several of the Zapfs' colleagues.
Book details
Publisher: RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press (May, 2009)
Binding: Case-bound quarter vellum with Fabriano Paper covers and title in gilt on the spine
Pages: 24
Size: 8.25 x 12.25 in.
Shipping Weight: 1
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Release date: June 8, 2009
Contact: Amelia Hugill-Fontanel, ahfwml@rit.edu
A typographic tribute to the Zapfs in their own words and letters.
Manuale Zapficum, the new limited edition book, commemorates the ninetieth birthdays of typographers Hermann Zapf and Gudrun Zapf von Hesse through beautiful typeface specimens set in homage to the classic design of Hermann Zapf’s masterpiece, his 1968 Manuale Typographicum. The 20 specimen designs in the book are based upon quotes about the couple’s oeuvre, each typeset in Zapf faces and letterpress printed by several of the Zapfs’ colleagues. The contributors include Jill Bell, proprietor of Brandlettering Design; Rick Cusik of Hallmark Cards; Jerry Kelly of the Kelly-Winterton Press and Nonpareil Type; Nancy Leo Kelly, a designer at The Dial Press; David Pankow, Curator of the Cary Graphic Arts Collection; and noted author/typographer, Doyald Young.
The Manuale follows a long progression Zapf publications issued by Rochester Institute of Technology’s Cary Graphic Arts Collection, which maintains one of the most comprehensive American archives of Zapf’s work. In 2008 RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press released a second edition of Hermann Zapf’s illustrated autobiography, Alphabet Stories, and in 2007 the Press published an exhibition catalogue dedicated to the couple’s combined works: Spend your Alphabets Lavishly. These works and other Zapf-related titles are available at http://carypress.rit.edu.
The Manuale Zapficum’s innovative specimen pages employ timeless Zapf faces such as Diotima, Optima, Palatino, and Zapfino, while including fresh uses of proprietary typefaces such as Hallmark Uncial and Hallmark Textura. A variety of the specimens were letterpress printed using historic metal type from the Cary Collection. Each is printed in traditional red and black on Hahnemühle Biblio paper. The Campbell-Logan Bindery of Minneapolis, MN, bound an edition of 100 copies with luxurious vellum spines and Fabriano paper-covered boards.
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The World of Alphabets by Hermann Zapf
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Do the words Palatino, Optima, and Melior resonate in your mind? How about Zapf Dingbats or Zapfino? If so, you surely recognize Hermann Zapf as one of the most influential type designers of the twentieth century. Collected here in this CD-ROM are 200 full-color digital reproductions of works spanning the past 60 years of Zapf's rich career.
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ISBN-10: 0-9713459-0-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-9713459-0-4
Shipping Weight: 0.2
Table of contents
SlideshowSelection by Date
Selection by Category
Selection by Illustrations
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Spend Your Alphabets Lavishly!
Price: $20.00
"Spend Your Alphabets Lavishly,"—a quote from Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables—aptly describes the lifework of two principal figures in contemporary graphic arts: Hermann and Gudrun Zapf. The Zapfs' 50-year relationship with Rochester Institute of Technology is feted in this exhibition and catalogue, sponsored by RIT’s Melbert B. Cary, Jr. Graphic Arts Collection. The show presents rare holdings of Zapf materials held at the Cary Collection—the foremost Zapf archive outside of Germany.
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Publisher: RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press (May, 2007)
Binding: Paperback with foil stamping
Pages: 48
Illustrations: 21
Size: 5.75 x 9 in.
Shipping Weight: 0.4
Front Cover
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The Work of Ismar David
edited by David Pankow
Price: $29.95
Ismar David made his career over a broad spectrum of applied art. His work is exciting, not merely because of its technical excellence, but because it resonates with clarity and color of a distinct and distinctive artistic voice.
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Publisher: RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press (January, 2005)
ISBN-10: 0-9759651-2-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-9759651-2-2
Binding: Sewn paperback
Pages: 160
Illustrations: 98 Full color
Size: 8 x 11 in.
Shipping Weight: 1.6
Table of contents
ForewordBiographical Sketch
Graphics
Bookwork
Architectural & Three-Dimensional Design
List of Architectural Sites
Bibliography
Cover Page
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Thinking in Script
Price: $30.00
Paul Standard named Edward Johnston as "The great exemplar of modern calligraphy, the link between all scribes living and departed." With this auspicious introduction, it is no wonder that Standard became Johnston’s chief benefactor in later years, heading a fund drive to save Johnston from destitution in his infirmity.
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Publisher: Melbert B. Cary, Jr. Graphic Arts Collection, Rochester Institute of Technology
Binding: softcover
Pages: 52
Illustrations: 11 color
Size: 9.25 x 9.75 in.
Shipping Weight: 0.4
Table of contents
Foreword by David Pankow, 7
Introduction by Mark Argetsinger, 9
Facsimilie of letter from Edward Johnston to Paul Standard, 23
Appendices:
1. Transcription of the letter, 39
2. Appeals for Edward Johnston's relief solicited by the National Society for Art Masters and by Paul Standard, 42
3. Letter from Paul Standard to Edward Johnston, Letter from Ernst Frederick Detterer to Edward Johnston, 43
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Calligraphic Salutations: Hermann Zapf's Letterheadings to Paul Standard
Price: $30.00
All of the short texts, or quotations, reproduced in this book were originally calligraphic embellishments that appeared at the heads of letters written by Hermann Zapf to Paul Standard in the 1940s and '50s. Fifteen such decorations are carefully printed here, accompanied by translations (where necessary) and Zapf's gracious tribute essay to Standard.
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Publisher: Melbert B. Cary, Jr. Graphic Arts Collection, Rochester Institute of Technology (January, 1993)
Binding: softcover
Pages: 48
Illustrations: 17 Full color
Size: 6 x 8.5 in.
Shipping Weight: 0.4
Detail on Front Cover
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The Book of Jonah
Price: $100.00
From the colophon: "In this special edition of the Book of Jonah, content and form are intimately interwoven. The linear drawings, suggestive rather than realistic, are contemporary in style yet drawn in the spirit of a past in which naturalistic representations were avoided. The atmosphere of the past is further evoked by the use of Oriental style elements in the Hebrew writing. While the letterforms are contemporary in their simplicity they are informed by manuscript writing of the pre-medieval era.
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Publisher: Chiswick Book Shop, Southbury, CT. (January, 1991)
Binding: Cloth-bound hardcover
Pages: 40
Illustrations: 15 Full color
Size: 10.25 x 12 in.
Shipping Weight: 1.6
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Alphabet Stories
Price: $65.00
Book details
Publisher: RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-933360-29-4
Binding: Case-bound in cloth with foil stamping, letterpress broadside insert
Pages: 150
Illustrations: 96 color
Size: 7.25 x 11 in.
Shipping Weight: 1.4
Table of contents
Nuremberg 1918
Inflation in Germany
School Years
Retoucher
Lettering Exercises
Fritz Kredel
Alkor
Musica
Gilgenart
Bordeaux
D. Stempel AG
Novalis
Palatino Roman
Pen and Graver
Das Blumen ABC
August Rosenberger
Aldus Book
Melior
Michaelangelo
Virtuosa
Optima
Manuale Typographicum
Al-ahram Arabic
Hallmark Textura
Program IBM 1130
Prinz-Ludwig-Presse
Orbis-Typographicus
Z-Presse
Edison
Marconi
Aurelia
Rochester Institute of Technology
Apple Computer
Zapf, Burns & Company
Donald Knuth
AMS Euler
Renaissance Antiqua
Zapf Dingbats & Essentials
Zapfino
Optima Nova
Palatino Arabic
Palatino Sans
Illustrations/plate section
List of Alphabets designed by Hermann Zapf
Publications
Postscript by David Pankow
Letterpress broadside in Virtuosa