Schrift Ecriture Lettering: The Development of European Letter Types Carved in Wood (Adrian Frutiger) birthdayposter showcasing Dürer’s woodcuts that demonstrate

showcasing Dürer’s woodcuts that demonstrate how to draft each letter within a square using only a compass and a rule

Hermann Zapf did

we came across this book in a used bookstore in Syracuse

Edward Johnston has been described as the father of modern calligraphy

Each one of these envelope-pushers is suitable for framing—and

Schrift Ecriture Lettering: The Development of European Letter Types Carved in Wood (Adrian Frutiger) birthdayposter showcasing Dürer’s woodcuts that demonstratePicture it: A 23 year old Adrian Frutiger needs to graduate from Kunstgewerbeschule Zrich (University of the Arts in Zurich). So what does he do? He used five short paragraphs about the history of occidental lettering written by one of his professors (because he was, apparently, a suck up) and cut in nine beechwood blocks fifteen approaches to lettering, from the Greek Lapidary Style to the Humanistic Cursive. Then he had that text printed from metal