punchcutting

In the mid-1980s Smeijers started to develop an interest in the early 16th century technique of punchcutting.

Pradell learned the armourer's trade from his father and studied the craft of punchcutting.

Such a tool solved two issues, one technical and one aesthetic, that arose in punchcutting.

Transmitted light pictures of the page also appeared to reveal substructures in the type that could not arise from traditional punchcutting techniques.

Georges Peignot files it October 11, 1899, and launches the punchcutting despite family's opposition.

He travelled to Islington to recuperate, study theology, Chinese and the art of printing, punchcutting and type-founding.

Typographic Sculpture: the Survival of Punchcutting at the Imprimerie Nationale - Matrix 20(2000)

In 1891, he moves to Germany, first in Leipzig in the Schwinger foundry where he discovers the world of printing and learns punchcutting.

In the standard process of making type, a hard metal punch (made by punchcutting, with the letter carved back to front) is hammered into a softer copper bar, creating a matrix.

Similarly, when designing his famous sans-serif typeface, his pupil Eric Gill made a like declaration of intent to work in the servile mode with the mechanical punchcutting process.

Carr taught typography, and the history of typography at Keene State University in Keene, New Hampshire, as well as giving workshops on punchcutting and letterpress printing internationally.

Schöffer is considered the author of many innovations such as dating books, introducing the printer's device and Greek characters in print, developing the basics of punchcutting and type-founding, and using colored inks in print.

He turned out to be very gifted at punchcutting, the shaping of metal type, and became so famous in his own time that Cosimo de Medici, the Grand Duke of Tuscany, offered him a position at his court.

This had several advantages over traditional punchcutting in hard steel: the type master only needed to be carved out of soft metal, and was also useful for large sizes of type, since it was hard to drive large punches into a matrix effectively.

August Rosenberger 1893-1980; A Tribute to one of the Greatest Masters of Punchcutting, an Art Now All but Extinct is Zapf's tribute to August Rosenberger through Zapf's recollections of their collaboration both during and after World War II in Germany.