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.
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