Teoria del type design

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  20 alfabeti brevemente illustrati

  € 23,00

  Raffaello Bertieri (1875-1941), a diligent and passionate protagonist of the vicissitudes of Italian typography, published one of his most important books in 1933 – the crucial year of the modernist graphic turn: 20 alfabeti brevemente illustrati (20 Alphabets Briefly Illustrated), printed in 275 copies and now almost impossible to find. A text addressed to “bibliophiles, the curious, connoisseurs of the Art of Printing…”, and written in a style as simple and clear as the illustrated typefaces of its pages.

  Bertieri bears witness to a typographic taste firmly anchored in tradition, but also tempted by modernism, as is emblematically shown by the review in this book, which includes typefaces characterised by Art Nouveau traits together with alphabets functional to the new graphics that was being imposed.

  This extremely rare work by Bertieri is now finally re-published, with an introductory essay by Alessandro Corubolo on Bertieri and typefaces (also accompanied by an English translation). The scans of the images and the printing are carried out by Trifolio of Verona; the letterpress cover, in two colours, is printed with a hand press. The book, like the first edition, was printed in 275 numbered copies.

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  Published by Ronzani Editore
  Preface by Alessandro Corubolo (translated into English)

  16.3 × 24 cm
  96 pages
  Paperback
  Italian
  Isbn 978-88-94911-37-4

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  Documenti di grafica contemporanea

  € 300,00

  The Printing Office presents a splendid collection of six books published between 1975 and 1977 by the Veronese artisanal print shop of deux amis Renzo Sommaruga and Igino Battistoni. Entitled ‘Documents of Contemporary Graphics’ and produced with exemplary care, in the plans of its editors-printers this series was to represent a substantial contribution to the dissemination of an artistic and aesthetic sensibility in step with the times. For this reason, they invested in the project by printing three thousand numbered and certified copies with the seal of the Castelvecchio Museum. As a guarantee for the purchasers, at the end of the print run the plates were biffed. Sommaruga and Battistoni’s intention was to keep the selling price as low as possible, so that the widest possible number of readers could get to know and appreciate the artistic expression of the time. The Printing Office re-publishes this authentic bibliographic treasure today in the same spirit as its creators.

  Each title released from the presses of Aux Deux Amis introduces and presents six works by six different contemporary artists of the time:
  Miguel Berrocal, Suite Veronese, Linoleographies, Verona, Aux Deux Amis, 1975
  Eugenio Tomiolo, Cavalcature, Six linocuts, Verona, Aux Deux Amis, 1976
  Gianni Dova, Racconto Bretone, Serigrafie, Verona, Aux Deux Amis, 1976
  Eugenio Chicano, Homage to Machado, Linotypes, Verona, Aux Deux Amis, 1976
  Virgilio Guidi, I volti della memoria, Six linocuts, Verona, Aux Deux Amis, 1976
  Giuseppe Ajmone, Sei Nudi, Lithographs, Verona, Aux Deux Amis, 1977

  Inside, the reader will find texts by the author (poems, short stories or significant quotations), original prints made by the artist, and, in each copy, an exclusive gift: a framed print, numbered and certified as well. All books are typeset in Bembo font, printed and bound by the Stamperia Valdonega of Verona, founded and directed by Giovanni Mardersteig. The numbered and certified prints are linocuts by Renzo Sommaruga, serigraphs by Igino Battistoni (Studiograph, Verona) or lithographs, in collaboration with La Spirale (Milan). The paper for the interior is 160 g, in a special watermarked manufacture from the Fratelli Magnani paper mill in Pescia, while a heavy coloured cardboard from the Miliani paper mill in Fabriano was used for the cover.

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  Complete set of 6 volumes of 24 pages each in an elegant slipcase
  24 × 33 cm

  Numbered, signed and certified copies
  A complimentary original print for each title

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  A new method of analysing printed type: the case of 15th-century Venetian romans

  Riccardo Olocco

  € 65,00

  This research introduces and discusses a new method of analysing printed typefaces and applies it to 15th-century Venetian romans. It aims to revise and improve the traditional methods of type analysis used in bibliographic research. It is based on photographic enlargements of printed types, image editing and detailed analysis of letterforms. Comparisons of printers’ typeforms are made by superimposing images – a practice that clearly highlights differences and similarities between letters.

  Drawing on printed material preserved in Italian and British libraries, this new method is applied to four important samples of early Venetian type design, including Nicolas Jenson’s Roman, which can safely be considered the prototype of all Roman types to date. The historical scope of the research covers the last three decades of the 15th century and focuses on the presses operating in Venice and the Venetian territories. Also taken into consideration are presses in the rest of Italy and throughout Europe that employed the Venetian types discussed here, both before and after 1500.

  Olocco’s work documents the trade in typographic material (cast and matrix typefaces) and the widespread use of certain types – areas that historians have generally ignored for this early period. It also documents the punchcutters’ ability to imitate existing types so well made that it can be very difficult to distinguish them from their original models – a practice that has not been studied previously.

  This research is supported by an extensive apparatus of images of letterforms shown at different magnification sizes. It is intended to provide new insights into the early development of Roman types and to aid bibliographical research by providing more in-depth information on the typefaces in use.

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  Text and book design by Riccardo Olocco

  29.7 × 22 cm
  454 pages
  English

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  Tipoteca. Una storia italiana

  € 90,00

  The occasion of Grafiche Antiga’s fiftieth anniversary offers a good pretext to bring to life a work, rich in images and content, that not only retraces the history of the Tipoteca museum, but above all puts materials and documents of absolute value in the spotlight. And the book itself becomes a journey into printing, with the shrewd use of papers and techniques that know how to give the printed book ‘character’ in the digital age, starting above all with the three inserts printed in letterpress with historical typefaces from the Tipoteca archive.

  Designed by London-based graphic designer Simon Esterson, with visual narration by photographer Claudio Rocci and texts by Italian and foreign scholars, Tipoteca. Una storia italiana is a tribute to the beauty of books and typography, with special emphasis on typefaces and machines, an authentic historical heritage saved by Tipoteca and made still accessible to the public thanks to years of commitment and passion.

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  Published by Antiga Edizioni
  Edited by Leonardo Facchin and Sandro Berra
  Preface by Lucio Passerini
  Texts by James Clough, Cesare De Michelis, Jost Hochuli, Alan Kitching, Mathieu Lommen, Arnaldo Loner, Bill & Jim Moran, James Mosley, Erik Spiekermann, Enrico Tallone, Alberto Vigevani
  Photographs by Claudio Rocci
  Book design Simon Esterson

  23 × 29 cm
  320 pages
  Over 230 images
  Hardback with slipcase
  Three letterpress inserts
  Italian/English
  Isbn 9788884350992

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