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365typo ATypI annual, volumes 1 and 2

365typo (2015–2017)

365typo 1 (2014–2015) and 365typo 2 (2015–2016), published in collaboration with Typo magazine and edited by Linda Kudrnovská, each feature 365 stories by the best writers covering typography and visual communications, as well as type and graphic design from all over the world. A shorter selection was published in 2017 as 52typo. For more information, see 365typo.

  • 365typo 1, étapes editions, 2015, 308pp, ISBN 9791095254003
  • 365typo 2, étapes editions, 2016, 319pp, ISBN 9791095254010
  • 52typo, étapes editions, 2017, 224pp, ISBN 9783721209754
Language Culture Type cover

Language Culture Type (2002)

Language Culture Type: International Type Design in the Age of Unicode (2002), edited by John D. Berry, published by ATypI in association with Graphis, 373pp, ISBN 1932026010. The first part of the book contains articles in the manner of ATypI’s Type journal of 1997–1998; the second part publishes the results of the ATypI bukva:raz! typeface design competition held in 2001.

Type journal (1997–1998)

Type, the ATypI journal, ran for two issues: Type vol. 1, no. 1 (1997) and Type vol. 2, no. 1 (1998), both edited by Sumner Stone. Material assembled by Jean François Porchez, intended for a third issue edited by him, was published in Language Culture Type.

Cover of Visible Language, winter 1985: “The Computer and the Hand in Type Design” Proceedings of the fifth ATypI Working Seminar (Stanford, 1983) Part I

Visible Language 19:1 (1985)

A special issue of Visible Language, vol. 19 no. 1 (winter 1985) subtitled “The computer and the hand in type design”, guest edited by Charles Bigelow with Lynn Ruggles, provides a valuable snapshot of the early years of typography’s digital transition. It comprised the proceedings of the fifth ATypI Working Seminar at Stanford, 1983. Contents:

  • A turning point in type design, John Dreyfus
  • Future tendencies in type design: the scientific approach to letterforms, Hermann Zapf
  • Lessons learned from Metafont, Donald Knuth
  • Stonecuttings from David Kindersley’s workshop, Lida Lopes Cardozo
  • The Transylvanian phoenix: the Kis–Janson types in the digital era, Jack Stauffacher
  • Galliard: a modern revival of the types of Robert Granjon, Matthew Carter
  • Punchcutting demonstration, Henk Drost
  • Mould making, matrix fitting, and hand casting, Stan Nelson
  • Fundamental research methods and form innovation in type design compared to technological developments in type production, André Gürtler with Christian Mengelt
  • The state of the art in typeface design protection, Edward Gottschall

Ferdinand Ulrich published “From punch cutters to number crunchers” (Eye magazine, summer 2017). a reconstruction of the Working Seminar based on these proceedings and conversations with the participants.

LetterLetter 1 cover
LetterLetter 1 cover

LetterLetter (1984–1996)

LetterLetter was a pamphlet on typography written and hand-lettered by Gerrit Noordzij, produced as  a circular for the ATypI from 1984 to 1996 (15 issues in total). Hartley & Marks published much of the material as Letterletter (2000), ISBN 088179175X, unfortunately not in facsimile and somewhat truncated.

Dossier A-Z 73 cover
Dossier A-Z 73 cover

Dossier A–Z 73 (1973)

A publication edited by Fernand Baudin and John Dreyfus, ready for the 1973 ATypI conference in Copenhagen.

1969 ATypI Prague papers, cover

Typographic opportunities in the computer age (1969)

Papers of the 11th Congress of the Association Typographique Internationale, Prague, June 1969. John Dreyfus and René Murat (eds.), 1970, 76pp.