A look at the origin story of ATypI itself: why it was founded, how it has evolved, perhaps where it is headed. Since we’ll be meeting in Paris this year, where ATypI was founded by Charles Peignot in 1956, it seems appropriate to take a look back.
In 2018, the ATypI Board commissioned John D. Berry to begin researching and writing the first of a series of publications on the history of the organization. The Association was launched in 1957, but there was very little in the archives about the first ten years or so of ATypI’s existence. And there are vanishingly… Continue reading In Search of ATypI