NEBIOLO CARATTERI
Societa Nebiolo
[Societa Nebiolo]: NEBIOLO CARATTERI. Torino: Societa Nebiolo, n. d. [1956 --Garaldus and Slogan were released in 1957 -- not included in this volume]. Original edition [pc 570]. Text in Italian, French, Spanish, English and German. A very good hard cover book in blue buckram with gold stamping on the cover and a faded spine in a shelfworn dust jacket with fore edge wear including sizeable chips missing. American Distributors stamp on the top of the preface page and one interior page. First few pages have a faint crease. Otherwise, interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print.6.75 x 9.5 hard cover book with 304 pages copiously illustrated with typefaces. From an article by John D. Berry [May 19, 2003] on the web site for creativepro: "Nebiolo was one of the major Italian type foundries, at a time when Italian design was on the cutting edge -- though the type business, unlike some other aspects of visual communication, was quite conservative. You wouldn't know it to page through 'Caratteri Nebiolo,' but the foundry employed one of the best-known modern type designers in Italy, the prolific Aldo Novarese, whose myriad typefaces have spread around the world. His most influential typeface design appears in this book (although no designer credit is given): Microgramma . . . ."
Contents
- Indice Generale
- Prefazione, Indice dei caratteri per ordine numerico, Indice dei caratteri per ordine alfabetico, Norme per ordinazioni, Nozioni tecniche, Polizze bianchi, Polizze filetti, Table e istruzione numerazione caratteri
- Suddivisione delle Famiglie
- Romani Antichi; Romani Moderni, Bodniani, Aldini, Normanni; Egizianai, Latini; Etruschi, Bastoni, Grotteschi; Fantasie Diverse; Scritti, Corsivi, Inglesi, Bastarde, Macchine da scrivere; Fregi in serie, Contorni, Fondi ecc.; Filetti in ottone, Grappe, Fuselli, Circoli ecc.; Segni diversi, Numeri
- Ultime Creazioni
Excerpted from the web site for Identifont: Aldo Novarese "began his studies at the Sculoa Artieri Stampatori (School of Printing Crafts) . . . . Following this he spent three years at a specialist typography school, The Scuola di Tipographica Paravia. At sixteen he joined the Nebiolo foundry in Turin as a draftsman. The Turinese Nebiolo had been the main Italian font foundry and printing machine factory since the fourteenth century.
In 1939 Novarese was imprisoned for protesting against the war, but was saved from hard labour because of a medal he had won in 1938 at the Ludo Juveniles art competition. He returned to Nebiolo at the end of the war, becoming art director in 1952, and went on to be awarded a gold medal at the Milan trade fair. In 1956 Novarese published a typeface classification which received much praise from professional associations in Italy and consolidated his position as director at Nebiolo.
He left the Nebiolo foundry in 1975 to begin freelance work as a typeface designer, and it is this later work that sealed Novarese's international reputation. He continued to work up until his death in 1995, with his final typeface, Agfa Nadianne, being completed just before his death.
Spreads from this volume can be viewed here.
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