Same Bold Stories?

Same Bold Stories?

Type Design by Women and Queers in the 20th and 21st Centuries: An exhibition running at the Klingspor Museum in Offenbach am Main in Germany through November 24th.

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For a long time, history presented a purely male perspective. Research in the field of type design now increasingly focuses on women, who were already active in type production at the beginning of the 20th century without achieving visibility. The exhibition Same Bold Stories? aims to critically research the Klingspor Museum’s historical type-related collection (1900–1950) for these female positions and to supplement the historiography of type design with their biographies and works.

La Police has launched a ;new website. You might already be familiar with its Footnotes publication, a periodical dedicated to type design & typography. Thanks to this site update, you can now order back issues or buy a subscription for three Footnotes issues, starting with the latest issue (that’s issue D, which is also new).

For a long time, Eckehart SchumacherGebler was one of the most significant actors in German printing. He built a towering legacy by running several companies, establishing societies, and founding a museum. On December 17th, he passed away, aged 88. The Offizin Haag-Dugulin published an obituary (in German).