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schmid, helmut: Calendar 1980
Helmut Schmid, [Osaka (?)], 1980. Front cover followed by six
leafs with two months and an illustration on each page, hold
together by a grey metal rail at top. (37,4 x 36,4 cm). Weak
tendency of a dog ear at lower right corner. The illustrations,
or rather pictures, are bus-, train- and subway tickets, from
Paris, Colombo, New York, Osaka, London, Warsaw.
helmut schmid – born 1942 in Austria as a German citizen.
Studies in Switzerland at the Basel School of Design under
Emil Ruder, Kurt Hauert and Robert Buchler. Works in West
Berlin and Stockholm (covers for Grafisk Revy). After Montreal
(Ernst Roch Design) and Vancouver he works in Osaka
for nia (for Taiho Pharmaceutical and Sanyo). 1973–76 at are
in Dusseldorf he designs publicity material for the German
government and the chancellors Willy Brandt and Helmut Schmidt. 1976 election campaign symbol
for the spd. 1978 exhibition of his politypographien at the Print Gallery in Amsterdam. Independent
designer in Osaka since 1981. Member of agi (Alliance Graphique Internationale) since 1988.
SEK500 / €59
[gill, eric] MacCarthy, Fiona: Eric Gill
SEK200 / €24
Faber and Faber, London, 1990. xiv, 338 pages. + 129 photos on 64 pages of plates.
Tall 8vo. 58 text-illustrations + plates. First paperback-edition. Former owner’s
signature on first end paper. Nice and unopened copy. The biography of one of the
1900s most interesting and ingenious artists. The book caused a stir when it came
out because Fiona MacCarthy not refrained for less known or recognized sides of
Eric Gill, but necessary to get an overall picture of this complexed man, or as Eric
Gill said in one of his many proverbs; “It all goes together”. (Gill, Corey & Mackenzie
636.135).
[melbert b. cary, jr. graphic arts collection] A Specimen
Portfolio of Wood Type in the Cary Collection
rit Cary Graphic Arts Press, 2010. xx, 305 pages. 4to (28 x 22 cm).
Spiral bound. Includes an introduction and classification system
used by permission of David P. Wall. Foreword by R. Roger Remington.
New copy.
Wood type in myriad designs—from stark condensed sans serifs to
bizarre ornamental scripts—created variety in commercial advertising
more than 180 years ago, and continues today to influence modern
signs, posters, and billboards. The Melbert B. Cary, Jr. Graphic
Arts Collection at rit maintains an impressive collection of wood
type, numbering over 300 fonts. This book showcases over 250 of
our best wood type specimens, including many complete fonts and
samples from unusual designs. All specimen reproductions were
painstakingly printed from the original wood type blocks, some distressed
with 100 years of use and abuse. The resulting compendium is a rich typographic resource sure
to delight any designer, scholar, collector and student of graphic arts history.
SEK225 / €27