Ralf Herrmann’s Typography Weblog

10 carefully crafted display ampersands

Posted on 02. Feb, 2010 by Ralf Herrmann.

“The year was 1887. Dierk Einhard Haäfe Master Typographer and Johan VanEngelbert Haph Suspected Wizard were inventing a typography machine to compete with Mergenthaler’s newly unveiled Linotype. With Haäfe’s typography experience and Haph’s scientific and technical know-how, they were sure to revolutionize the design industry. Misjudging the combined radioactive effects of (then unknown) plutonium and liberal use of Dr. Kurl’s Moustache Wax ™, Johan inadvertently sparked a quantum flux ripping space-time wide open and transporting the designers to the 21st Century. With no hope of return, they set about re-establishing themselves as prominent designers, quickly adapting to new technology with old-world flair.”

http://www.haafe.com/

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Movie about the Hamilton Wood Type Museum

Posted on 10. Jan, 2010 by Ralf Herrmann.

The Hamilton Wood Type Museum in Two Rivers, WI personifies cultural preservation, rural re-birth and the lineage of American graphic design. At Hamilton, international artisans meet retired craftsmen and together navigate the convergence of modern design and traditional technique. But the Museums days are numbered. What is the responsibility of artists and historians to preserve a dying craft? How can rural towns survive in a shifting industrial marketplace where big-box retailers are king?

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Folder Type

Posted on 24. Jun, 2009 by Ralf Herrmann.

Beautiful type animation build with colored empty folders on MacOS X.

Folder Type from Emilio Gomariz on Vimeo.

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Wood letter printing in Brazil

Posted on 18. Mai, 2009 by Ralf Herrmann.

Grafica Fidalga, a printing press in São Paulo, Brazil, makes posters on a 1929 German letterpress using hand-carved wooden letters.

(via praeganz.de)

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Dutch government introduces corporate typeface

Posted on 16. Nov, 2008 by Ralf Herrmann.

As part of the new brand identity of the Dutch government Peter Verheul designed a custom typeface for all forms of visual communications. Read about it in Sander Baumann’s weblog.

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Interview with Frantisek Storm

Posted on 15. Nov, 2008 by Ralf Herrmann.

An interview with František Štorm, type designer and founder of the Storm Type Foundry in Prague:

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Iwan Reschniev – a typeface by Jan Tschichold

Posted on 29. Okt, 2008 by Ralf Herrmann.

In 1930 Jan Tschichold describes a new typeface in the publication “Börsenblatt für den Deutschen Buchhandels”, that “can be drawn by everyone without typographic knowledge”.

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Typographunnies

Posted on 27. Aug, 2008 by Ralf Herrmann.

Did you hear? Comma and Period got married.
Really? Comma’s a great guy, but who’s Period?
Some moody chick he picked up at the Crossbar a year ago.
I bet she’s perfect for him.
Yep, she’s always finishing his sentences.

This website collects typographic jokes.You can submit your own and rate the presented jokes.

via TypoForum

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Comic Sans saves the font world

Posted on 22. Jul, 2008 by Ralf Herrmann.

via Typophile

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The Gutenberg Press

Posted on 18. Apr, 2008 by Ralf Herrmann.

In this BBC broadcast Stephen Fry examines the story behind the first media entrepreneur Johann Gutenberg, to find out how he printed his famous Bibles.

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