Prof. Hermann Zapf turns 90 today

How about an indepently-conducted interview with Prof. Hermann Zapf, who turns 90 today (Nov. 8, 2008)? The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung has just what you’re looking for! The FAZ may be Germany’s most prestigious newspaper… think the Wall Street Journal, with more content. If you read German, here you go. If you don’t, try what Babelfish makes out of it. Thanks, Karsten!

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Published:: 11.08.08 / 3pm

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The week in type: cassanova | i love typography, the typography and fonts blog 11.11.08 / 2pm

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Dan Reynolds is a typeface designer and typographic researcher in Berlin. TypeOff.™ – this blog – launched in 2004; it was founded by a collective of typography students in Offenbach, Germany. The members of this team have each moved on to better things, but the »Offenbach Typostammtisch« inaugurated by the group still meets monthly. Its dates and locations are listed on spatium’s website.

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