German typographer Paul Renner is best known as the designer of the typeface Futura, which stands as a landmark of modern typographic design. Paul Renner, still the only study in any language of Renner's brilliant career, details his life and work to reveal the breadth of his accomplishments and influence. Christopher Burke presents a wealth of hithertounpublished materials, drawing on primary sources and archival research and clearly written with an eye to today's reader. Beautifully designed, Paul Renner is an inspiring tour de force portrait of this typographer's extraordinary career and his ongoing influence on the graphic arts.
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...a fascinating portrait of a man of taste, passion and commitment whose contribution to reading and printing made him an enemy of his state... Steven Heller, The New York Times Book Review
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Christopher Burke presents a wealth of hitherto unpublished materials drawing on primary sources and archival research closely examining the context in which Renner operated. With an eye to his relevance for today's reader, Burke writes clearly and pointed
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Fascinating history of an era and a man's work,
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This is a rare achievement as it gives interesting insights into both the aesthetic achievement of a designer, and the culture milieu in which he lived and reacted to. As this same background--the German speaking world from about 1890 to WWII--was very fertile creatively in many fields, the book is of interest far beyond Renner himself.
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This is one of those most interesting books I have ever read about graphic design, you expect it to be filled with Paul Renner's work, but instead it goes much deeper than that, describing his philosophy and ideas, which is what essentially graphic design is.
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Interesting book -- Renner, along with Herbert Bayer and others of his era, created typography and design that still looks modern decades later.
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mechanisierte grafik, grotesk types, funktionell sein, new typography, gothic letterforms, sanserif typefaces, typographic rules, asymmetric layout, roman letterforms, modern typography, unjustified text, gothic typefaces, bold weights, book typography, orthographic reform, typographic layout, new sobriety, gothic script, roman typefaces, printing type Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Paul Renner, Die Kunst, Jan Tschichold, First World War, Munich Meisterschule, Third Reich, Second World War, Nachlaß Renner, Thomas Mann, Edith Tschichold, Walter Gropius, Georg Müller, Herbert Bayer, Jakob Grimm, Peter Behrens, Rudolf Koch, Deutscher Werkbund, Die Form, Ferdinand Kramer, Frankfurter Kunstschule, Graphische Berufsschule, Steile Futura, Heinz Haushofer, Nachlag Renner, Typographische Mitteilungen New!
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mechanisierte grafik, grotesk types, funktionell sein, new typography, gothic letterforms, sanserif typefaces, typographic rules, asymmetric layout, roman letterforms, modern typography, unjustified text, gothic typefaces, bold weights, book typography, orthographic reform, typographic layout, new sobriety, gothic script, roman typefaces, printing type Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Paul Renner, Die Kunst, Jan Tschichold, First World War, Munich Meisterschule, Third Reich, Second World War, Nachlaß Renner, Thomas Mann, Edith Tschichold, Walter Gropius, Georg Müller, Herbert Bayer, Jakob Grimm, Peter Behrens, Rudolf Koch, Deutscher Werkbund, Die Form, Ferdinand Kramer, Frankfurter Kunstschule, Graphische Berufsschule, Steile Futura, Heinz Haushofer, Nachlag Renner, Typographische Mitteilungen New!
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- The New Typography (Weimar & Now: German Cultural Criticism S.) by Jan Tschichold on 16 pages
- Inside the Third Reich by Albert Speer on page 165, page 183, and Back Matter
- The First World War (Teach Yourself History) by David Evans on page 44
- Stanley Morison by Nicolas Barker on page 195
- North Carolina by George Humphries in Back Matter
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