Archive for the ‘process’ Category

How to Retain the Qualities of Handwork in Mechanical Production

Jan van Krimpen, A letter to Philip Hofer on certain problems connected with the mechanical cutting of punches. A facsimile reproduction with an introduction and commentary by John Dreyfus (Studies in the history of calligraphy and printing No. 4). Cambridge (Mass.), Department of Printing and Graphic Arts, Harvard College Library/Boston, David R. Godine, 1972, 8°, 102 pp., [...]

From Sketch to Type: The Evolution of a Bauer Type Face

The printer has many opportunities of learning how a type is cut and cast, and it is important that he should have this knowledge. How the stage of cutting is reached, the work that has gone before and all it involves — this can neither be learnt from technical books nor by the tour of a type [...]