[Warm congratulations to Professor Rudolf von Larisch on his seventieth birthday] Typographics2023 It was intended to be

It was intended to be both an aide-mémoire of that exhibition

And they had Burtin design this handsome thing

Take your time

he introduced a new visual experience through his creation

don’t get us started on parents

[Warm congratulations to Professor Rudolf von Larisch on his seventieth birthday] Typographics2023 It was intended to beWe dont really know the story of this one. What follows has a fact or two followed by some educated but potentially misleading guesses. Google Translate suggests that this is a birthday greeting for Rudolf von Larisch, the important Austrian calligrapher, editor of this book, and type designer (most recently covered in this fantastic book). Von Larisch would have turned 70 on April 1, 1926, which means this was most likely printed in that year. In