laser-lovers@uw-beaver (05/24/85)
From: Chuck Bigelow <CAB@SU-AI.ARPA>
The latest issue of the journal VISIBLE LANGUAGE
is a special issue on THE COMPUTER AND THE HAND IN TYPE DESIGN,
Proceedings of the fifth ATypI Working Seminar at Stanford University,
1983.
It contains articles by:
Hermann Zapf (typeface designer: Palatino, Optima, etc.)
John Dreyfus (former Typographic Adviser to Monotype, Cambridge U. Press)
Donald Knuth (author of TeX and Metafont)
Lida Cardozo (stonecutter and lettering artist)
Jack Stauffacher (typograher: former design director, Stanford U. Press)
Matthew Carter (typeface designer: Galliard, Auriga, Bell Centennial, etc.)
Henk Drost (punchcutter; one of the last traditional type fabricators)
Stan Nelson (printing historian; handcaster and punchcutter of metal type)
Andre Guertler & Christian Mengelt (teachers of lettering and type designers
Media, Unica, etc.)
Edward Gottschall (VP of International Typeface Corporation; author)
This is the first of two special issues that constitute the full proceedings
of the seminar. Edited by Charles Bigelow and Lynn Ruggles, with an
introduction by Charles Bigelow. Designed by Carol Twombly, Lynn Ruggles,
Cleo Huggins, Dave Siegel, Dan Mills, and produced with the assistance of
the TeX and Digital Typography groups of Stanford.
Composed in ten different digital typefaces, one traditional hot-metal
face, and one photo (Kanji) face, on various kinds of typesetting equipment
from around the world. Copiously illustrated. Abstracts for the articles
in French, German, and Japanese. 168 pages. Handy 6" x 9" format.
Can be ordered by subscribing to VISIBLE LANGUAGE, Box 1972, Cleveland
Museum of Art, Cleveland OHIO, 44106.
Subscription fees for 1985:
Individual: $20 (Note: not $15 as I previously reported to this list)
Institution: $30
Subscription beginning with this issue (Vol XIX, No 1) will later include
the second volume of the ATypI Proceedings.
(Disclaimer: I was the organizer of the Seminar and co-editor of these
Proceedings. Like other academic publications and conferences, these
are not profit-making activities. Visible Language, by the way, was
one of the first journals (1967) to publish articles on digital typography.
It could use additional scholarly or research articles on laser printing,
document formatting, and other topics of interest to readers of laser-lovers).