Future Tendencies in Type Design: The Scientific Approach to Letterforms

Author Biography

• Hermann Zapf
  Freelance designer since 1938. Born in 1918 in Nuremberg, Germany. Worked as a type director at D. Stempel AG typefoundry, and as a design consultant to Merganthaler Linotype Company and Hallmark International. He has taught at the Werkkunstschule Offenback, the Carnegie Institute of Technology, the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, and the Rochester Institute of Technology. He has also lectured and exhibited widely throughout the United States and Europe, and is an honorary member of numerous typographic clubs and societies. Published William Morris, 1948, Pen and Graver. 1950 and 1952, Manuale Typographicum, 1954 and 1968, About Alphabets, 1960, Typographic Variations, 1964, Orbis Typographicus, 1980. He has been featured in the film The Art of Hermann Zapf made by Hallmark Productions.