TYPE DESIGN INFORMATION PAGE last updated on Mon Apr 15 06:55:35 EDT 2024
FONT RECOGNITION VIA FONT MOOSE
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Lorène Picard
Or Lorène Ceccon. Teacher at the ENS Paris-Saclay, and doctoral student in industrial arts. Github link. Designer of the free font Zarathustra (2016). She writes: Zarathustra is a revival from a typeface designed by the Brussels-based painter Georges Lemmen at the beginning of the 20th century. It was specifically designed for the 1908 version of Friedrich Nietzsche's book "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" (Insel Verlag, Leipzig). Historically, this book project was initiated by Harry Graf von Kessler to compete with prestigious European presses such as Kelmscott Press and Doves Press. His ambition was to create "the greatest book we ever seen". He consigned the book design to Henry Van de Velde, founder of La Cambre School of Art, Brussels. Henry Van de Velde asked Georges Lemmen to [do] the type design. His design was influenced by Jugendstil and modernity. [...] The revival project was initiated in 2012 during an Erasmus semester in the type design class at La Cambre. |
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file name: Lorene Cecco Zarathustra 2016
file name: Lorene Picard Pic
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