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    Paul Renner: The Art of Typography

    The aquiline features of Paul Renner punctuate the chapters of Hyphen Press’s “Paul Renner: the art of typography.” This richly illustrated and methodically constructed work records, with great integrity, Renner’s contribution to modern typography and design. Renner is most often associated with Futura, one of the century’s most popular typefaces. Yet the picture that emerges from Christopher Burke’s text defines a figure whose impact on design, through a mixture of pragmatism and diplomacy, is as profound as it is little Renner (–) lived through tumultuous industrial and political change in twentieth-century Germany. He began his career as a “book artist” in Munich and became a member of the Deutscher Werkbund, where he spoke on the value of quality in design. He taught with Georg Trump and Jan Tschichold at the printing school in Munich, simultaneously working on the design of the Futura typeface, before being dismissed from his teaching post by

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    Titans of Type

    What I learned from reading ⁠Frederic Goudy⁠

    Frederic Goudy was the most famous type designer in the world, the designer of over different typefaces, the author of a number of published works, and a public lecturer and teacher. Join me in this conversation as we study the life, work, and influences of Frederic Goudy.

    () ⁠"Why Designers Can't Think"⁠ bygd Michael Bierut

    () Goudy's design philosophy

    () Titans episodes ⁠#1 (Jan Tschichold)⁠ and ⁠#2 (Paul Renner)⁠

    () Goudy's Deepdene typeface

    () Goudy's critique of the types of the past

    () ⁠Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead⁠ bygd Jim Mattis

    () ⁠Confessions of an Advertising Man⁠ bygd David Ogilvy

    () Goudy meets Will Bradley, leading Art Nouveau Illustrator and the highest-paid American commercial artist

    () Goudy's first introduction to The Kelmscott Press and ideas of William Morris as well as Charles Ricketts and Charles James Cobden-Sanderson, who all became large sources of inspiration for Goudy's work

    () Fred

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    Paul Renner: the art of typography

    The work and life of this German type and book-designer are, for the first time, presented at length and with full historical documentation. Renner lived through the first half of the twentieth century, and this book is, in effect, a history of typography in Germany in those years. It also speaks to present concerns in design, and especially to the search for a rationality deeper than one of easy rules of style.

    Contents

    Background

    Rejuvenation, –
    The beginnings of cultural rejuvenation
    The German Werkbund
    The German cult of the book
    Renner as a Werkbund figure

    Renewal, –
    Socially-engaged design
    The New Typography
    Renner confronts modernity
    Theories of modern design

    Futura and the modern letter in Germany:
    The question of ‘gothic versus roman’
    Futura
    Orthographic reform

    Crisis, –3:
    The course of the Werkbund
    Renner’s engagement in controversy
    Arrest
    A brief stay in Switzerland

    Typography in a dictatorship, –
    Gothic script during t