OUGD504 - Typography Workshop - Further Research

As I was looking into type again in it's basic structures I started to search for how typefaces develop from a sketch to a fully crafted and working family of glyphs. 

Typoretum, a letterpress studio run by Justin Knopp has a great blog on all things to do with the history of typography. The following quotes are 

"THE PRINTER has many opportunities of learning how a type is cut and cast, and it is important that he should have this knowledge"

"How the stage of cutting is reached, the work that has gone before and all it involves – this can neither be learnt from technical books nor by the tour of a type foundry. For here we are dealing with work done in privacy, of very varying nature, and spread over a number of years – in some cases over decades."

Weiss Roman (1931)

Artists comments, “The g is of a really grotesque ugliness! That is why I have re-drawn it twenty times!”

http://blog.typoretum.co.uk/2012/04/11/from-sketch-to-type-–-the-evolution-of-a-bauer-type-face/

Where it all began

This book walks very slowly and thoroughly through the long life of printing and designing before graphic design was truly considered as a separate vocation. Written by David Jury, head of a Masters course and all round award winning designer, it details the everyday workings of the print maker, type crafting and setting, sign making and onwards to designers eventually working with printers in separate fields of craft. 

Each punch (letter body form) was engraved by hand, often referencing a book in order to create new structures. Once cut, the punch was hardened and put to use in a press. 

Graphic Design before Graphic Designers: The Printer as Designer and Craftsman 1700 - 1914

Publication Date: 3 Sep 2012 | ISBN-10: 0500516464 | ISBN-13: 978-0500516461

Page 10,14, 19, 

Indie Publishing: How to Design and Produce Your Own Book, Lupton. E, 01/12/08, ISBN-10: 1568987609