INSPIRED TYPOGRAPHY '66

The Type Directors Club of New York

The Type Directors Club of New York: INSPIRED TYPOGRAPHY '66. New York: The Type Directors Club of New York, n. d. [1956]. First edition: "printed in a limited quantity for distribution to the many friends who have so kindly encouraged our efforts and programs in the past." Slim quarto. Printed wrappers. Unpaginated [36 pp.] Short essays. Complimentary card laid in. Wrappers lightly worn. A very good or better copy. Rare.

8.5 x 10.5 saddle-stitched book with 36 pages of short essays on the projected state of the typographic arts in 1966. Designed by Bob Farber. No one in the Type Directors Club in 1956 imagined what a personal computer would look like one day. Most of their members were more concerned with the question of whether typography is a craft or an art.

Although published by The Type Directors Club of New York, INSPIRED TYPOGRAPHY '66 is an international document, with these countries represented: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, England, Germany, Holland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the U. S. A.

Essays by Prof. Raul M. Rosarivo, B. Montgomery, Friedrich Neugebauer, Carl Dair, C. Volmer Nordlunde, Alan Dodson, Ernest Hoch, Hans Schmoller, Rudolf Franke, E. Hottenroth, Herman Zapf, William Crouwel, W. Sandberg, Jan Van Krimpen, Henri Friedlaender, Eugenio Carmi, Gaetano Cecchetti, Giancarlo Guerrini, Yasuo Nakajima, Hiroshi Ohchi, Kjell Armand Johansen, Olle Eksell, Max Calfisch, Warja Honegger-Lavater, J. Muller-Brockmann, Henri Steiner, Kurt Wirth, Will Burtin, Jerome Gould, Leo Lionni, R. Huner Middleton and Bradbury Thompson

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