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- Sep 21, 2017
- 2 min
Futura: Past, Present, Future
Can you ever have too much Futura in your life? Some designers say NO! Some designers say YES! Last year I interviewed Petra Eisele, Annette Ludwig and Isabel Naegele, typographic scholars who adore Futura (designed by Paul Renner) in all its historical iterations and uses. In turn they edited Futura: The Typeface, a stunning examination in German of one of the most popular typefaces ever created, then celebrating its 90th anniversary as the Typeface of the Future. Charting i
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- Dec 7, 2016
- 3 min
Type of the Future Past
“Futura. Die Schrift.” is an exceptional exhibition and catalog (edited by Petra Eisele, Annette Ludwig and Isabel Naegele, and published by Verlag Hermann Schmidt, Mainz) at the Gutenberg Museum in Germany through April 2017. For those who cannot visit the exhibition, the catalog (currently only in German) is a must-have. I asked Isabel Naegele of the Studiengang Kommunikationsdesign to tell us more about the history and legacy of Paul Renner’s “typeface of tomorrow.” What m
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- Jul 21, 2016
- 2 min
Futura’s Paul Renner Tackles Color
Paul Renner (1878–1956) is best known as the designer of the paradigmatic modern typeface Futura, literally deemed in its marketing materials as “The Typeface of the Future.” Renner’s life and work was significantly reviewed and chronicled by the English design historian Christopher Burke in Paul Renner: The Art of Typography, a must-read for anyone interested in the significance of type and politics. Verlag Hermann-Schmidt is planning a major book devoted to Futura to coinci
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