What I learned from reading Jan Tschichold, Master Typographer: His Life, Work, and Legacy
Jan Tschichold was the author of Die Neue Typography (The New Typography), the the designer of a number of typefaces (including Sabon, Transit, Zeus and others) and a public lecturer and teacher. Join me in this conversation as we study the life, work, and influences of Jan Tschichold.
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(1:33) Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead by Jim Mattis
(4:33) Two of Tschichold's early sources of education: Writing & Illuminating & Lettering by Edward Johnston and Unterricht in ornamentaler Schrift (Instruction in Ornamental Writing) by Rudolf von Larisch
(6:22) Tschichold first visits the Bauhaus
(7:37) Gropius: The Man Who Built the Bauhaus by Fiona MacCarthy
(16:37) The New Typography by Jan Tschichold
(20:11) Ogilvy on Advertising by David Ogilvy
(25:35) Tschichold is invited by Paul Renner to teach typography and calligraphy at the Vocational School for Graphic Arts in Munich
(30:09) Tschichold is offered the headmaster's post at the Department of Typography at the Berlin Higher Vocational School for Graphic Arts
(31:43) Tschichold is arrested by the Nazis
(36:03) Tschichold begins to reconsider his work on the New Typography
(38:30) Propaganda by Edward Bernays
(40:29) Letter Forms by Stanley Morison
Typefaces designed by Jan Tschichold:
Transit, Saskia, Zeus, Uhertype-Standard-Grotesk, and Sabon
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