Posts Tagged ‘Jan van Krimpen’

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., [...]

Jan van Krimpen

On assessing the early work by Jan van Krimpen one is struck by the seemingly Germanic influence apparent in design and letterform. It is only after one realizes that, at the moment van Krimpen became interested in them, German printing and lettering manifested the teachings of Johnston and Gill, that this influence is seen to [...]