PAST SEMINARS & WORKSHOPS
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Friday: 8 November 1996 |
Saturday: 9 November 1996 |
The Saturday Book Arts Workshop is $35 and is limited to twelve participants. Call 606 257.8408 or 606 257.1742 or send your check to the King Library Press.
David Pankow is the curator of the Melbert B. Cary, Jr., Graphic Arts Collection at Rochester Institute of Technology. The Cary Collection is one of the country's premier libraries on the history and practice of printing and includes holdings on papermaking, bookbinding, typefounding, and the art of the book.
He is a professor in the graduate program of RIT's School of Printing, teaching courses on the history of the book and on the history and technology of 20th century fine printing. He has written and lectured extensively, and, for the past six years, has been the editor of Printing History, the journal of the American Printing History Association. The Cary Collection, housed in the RIT Library, also maintains a functioning collection of historic printing equipment.
Rudolf Koch (1876-1949) was an artist, calligrapher, and letter designer in Offenbach, Germany. He was associated there with the Klingspor Type Foundry. He also conducted a design studio known as the Offenbacher Werkstatt, or Offenbach Workshop.
Koch created manuscript books, designed over twenty typefaces, and taught a number of individuals, such as Warren Chappel, Fritz Kredel, and Berthold Wolpe, who became prominent in the field of book design. His typefaces include Peter-Jessen-Schrift, Kabel, Koch Antiqua, Neuland, Prism, and Wilhelm Klingsporschrift. His workshop also produced woodcuts, weavings, and metalwork in brass and silver.
He was a close friend of the Lexington emigré artist, typographer, and printer Victor Hammer; of him Koch wrote a charming essay entitled Who Is Victor Hammer? Among Koch's best-known other publications are The Little ABC Book, The Book of Flowers, and The Typefoundry in Silhouette.
The title illustration is from Koch's The Typefoundry in Silhouette and the type is Kabel and Wilhelm Klingsporschrift.