It was back in 1935 when Zapf started on his course to teaching himself to become one of the century's most significant type designers and calligraphers.
Hermann Zapf was born around the end of World War I, famine had struck the country and his mother had just enough money to send him to school in 1925.
While he was in school, Zapf perferred technical subjects. But even though he was so young, Zapf was already getting involved with type, exchanging secret alphabets with messages only his brother and him could read.
Once he graduated he wanted to pursue
a career in electrical engineering but he wasn't
able to attend the technical college he was planning on attending due to the new political form of government
in office. So he went for an apprenticeship with some of his teachers, but they noticed the new political difficulties, and suggested that he because
a lithographer due to his skill in drawing. He was continually rejected in interviews based on his politcal answers to the questions that were asked. But then the last company didn't
ask any of these types of quetions so he was hired as a retoucher, since they werent in need of an apprentice lithographer.
Zapf was first interested in lettering after he attended an exhibition in honor of a typographer. Zapf boughta couple of books there, to teach himself calligraphy and he studied examples of calligraphy in the city library. Pretty soon, his expertise in calligraphy was getting recognized at work, and his retouching shifted to letter retouching. AFter the apprentinceship there, he worked at a company in typography and writing songbooks. Then in 1938, he designed a fraktur type called Gilgengart for them, which was his first printed typeface.
During the war, Zapf was too careless and clumsy to fight so he was sent to Jüterbog to train as a cartographer. In the cartography unit, Zapf drew maps of Spain. Zapf was happy to be in the cartography unit because his eyesight was excellent. He didn't
need a magnifying glass to write letters 1 millimeter in size. A skill that possibly saved him from being drafted back into the army. After the war had ended, he started to teach calligraphy lessons in Nuremberg in 1946. He thengot a job offer from a type company Stempel who offered him a high position as an artistic head of the company.He also taught calligraphy lessons at the Arts and Crafts School in Offenbach he met his wife there, who was also a teacher of typography there.
By being educated at a young age in literacy, I included it in my pottery and also working for newspaper companies strengthened my form of expression. Working in the South Carolina Republican and then later on The Edgefield Hive as a typesetter, it was a good experience helping my literacy skills but I didn’t feel fully indulged. I did it because I had to but also to learn. By understand typography, I was able to understand the science of the anatomy of type. They taught me the use of size, spacing, and placement of typography in order to show hierarchy, direction and attraction. I became to understanding that type is a collective of shapes and strokes. Master Abner 's newspaper did not get a lot of publicity and hit a crisis, which led him to cease publication of the newspapers. Master Abner then moved to Columbia, South Carolina, in 1832. He decided to leave me back in Edgefield and...
At the start of World War II, his father was sent away, captured by Germans, and didn’t return until the war’s end.
Around the time where World War II came around, he felt the need to help. Since he was of a too old of age for recruiting, he illustrated training movies for soldiers. This is where he was introduced to the art of animation and where he created a trainee named Private Snafu (All About Dr. Seuss).
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was born to a highly educated family on July 1, 1646 in Leipzig. Leibniz’s father, Friedrich Leibniz, was a professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Leipzig and Catharina Schmuck, his mother, was the daughter of a professor of law. With the event of his father’s death, Leibniz was guided by his mother and uncle in his studies. He was also given access to the contents of his father’s library. In 1661 Leibniz began his formal university education at the University of Leipzig. While attending the university he soon met Jacob Thomasius. Thomasius instilled in Leibniz a great respect for ancient and medieval philosophy. After accepting his baccalaureate from Leipzig, Leibniz began studying at the University of Altdorf. While in attendance at Altdorf, Leibniz published Dissertation on the Art of Combinations (Dissertatio de arte combinatoria) in 1666 (Brandon C. Look, 2007). It sketched a plan for a “universal cha...
As the young boy grew, he began to have a love for art and wanted to become an artist, but his father, however, did not have a care of his son’s dreams, but instead wanted him to grow up, following in his footsteps; in which Adolf rebelled against.
Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn, Austria, on April 20, 1889. He was the son of a minor customs official and a peasant girl. He dropped out of high school and applied for admission to the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna but was rejected for lack of talent. Slowly he stated to develop anti-Jewish and antidemocratic convictions, an admiration for the outstanding individual, and contempt for the masses.
He found a job as an office boy for two lawyers and later an apprentice as a printer for a local newspaper, “Patriot”. There he learned many useful things like how to use the printing press and typesetting. In 1833, his family moved back to Long Island and there he continued to work for several newspapers. In 1836, at the age of 17, he began his career as teacher but stopped when he turned to journalism as a full-time career. He founded a weekly new...
Copperplate typeface was created by Frederic William Goudy in 1901. Goudy was born in the United states in march 8, 1965 in Bloomington, Illinois. He was an American printer and typographer and best known for being one of the most productive type creators in history. He was first a book-keeper for credit and mortgage companies then he moved to Chicago to work in the real state business. Later in 1892 he launched a magazine called “Modern Advertising” which issued only a few numbers. He later opened up a print workshop where he started to design typefaces for various publishing houses and companies. Goudy died on May 11, 1947 in Marlboro, New York. He left us with more than a hundred designed typefaces which include: Camelot, Berkely Old Style, LTC Kennerley, Goudy Old Style, Hadriano, LTC Deepdene...
ruled the area of Mansfeld, where he had been born. Old and sick, he went there,
little money. One job he had would change the course of his life. While a store clerk
His first job on graduating in 1938 was art director of the Junior League magazine, later he worked in the same capacity for Saks Fifth Avenue department store. At the age of 25, he quit his job and used his small savings to go to Mexico, where he painted a full year before he convinced himself he would never be more than a mediocre.
German architect Walter Gropius founded the Bauhaus in 1919 (Whiteford, 1993). While serving as an officer in the Great War, he dreamed of creating an art and design school that would help change the world. After the war, Gropius began to work on his dream and was asked to find an art school and to write his ideas in a manifesto published in 1919, the Proclamation of the Bauhaus (Whiteford, 1993). The revolutionary tone of the Proclamation of the Bauhaus inspired the soviet revolution and the German mutinies, which helped end the war.
The Bauhaus was created upon Germany’s loss in World War 1 lead for a huge step up in arts. But the biggest inspiration for the Bauhaus was modernism. An art that had been around since the 1880s. Walter Gropius goal was to create a new bread of craftsmen. Gropius hired the top artists of the time to help him teach within the Bauhaus. In 1922 Gropius employed a Dutch
During 1448 a German inventor named Johann Gutenberg changed the world. With many different strategies that he overcame and ways that he could spread his creation, he did it so that the whole nation could experience his brilliant invention. Although, there were many achievements throughout the world that deeply impacted many things that we still use today, the most important achievement throughout technology is the printing press by Johannes Gutenberg. It helped spread the sprouting of religion, books and as well as influencing the public’s opinion throughout articles and newspapers.