Alphabet Stories notgoingtotypographics The month starts with NASA

The month starts with NASA and the FAA intentionally crashing a Boeing 720 into the Mojave Desert and ends with Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen losing his left arm

Explained in these pages is how the acquisition came about and how an antiquarian must always be on his guard

We asked Michael Russem to write a little note about it and help us understand how we might fall in love with it

And it’s only $20

Apparently it is in the charter of the Grolier Club in New York that every few years they must have an exhibition or lecture or some sort of event about Hermann Zapf and his work

Alphabet Stories notgoingtotypographics The month starts with NASAThis book is the first Hermann Zapf monograph to be typeset in Palatino Nova and Palatino Sans digital typefaces issued by Linotype. Written as an anecdotal first person account, the reader is treated to Zapfs personal recollections of technical breakthroughs and he reveals milestones tracing his education in 1930s Germany, his work on forefront of computer aided typesetting in the 1970s, and the tour de force design of a complex calligraphic