Lettercarving for type designers: a handbook spacetype hence the stamp on the

hence the stamp on the title page

(Although we spotted Profil in there and that’s from 1947

Edited by Eugen Gomringer

we had a little freedom to put up something more permanent on said wall

This is a copy of the original edition and is remarkable example of graphic dynamism and rational order

Lettercarving for type designers: a handbook spacetype hence the stamp on theThis handbook was written for the students of Type and Media, a one year Master program in type design at the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten (Royal Academy of Art) in The Hague. Its aim is to explain how to carve letters in stone. It describes the course, which consists of a sequence of three carving exercises and many practical aspects relating to these, such as choosing and preparing stone, learning about tools, and sketching and making