Poem Editions (or: Atelier Jerome Knebusch)

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Poem Editions (or: Atelier Jerome Knebusch) [Jérôme Knebusch] Poem is an independent publishing initiative related to text, type and typography directed by Jérôme Knebusch and located in Frankfurt am Main. Knebusch, who also runs Atelier Jerome Knebusch, is a French type designer who graduated from l'École nationale supérieure d'art de Nancy and from l'Atelier national de recherche typographique. In 2008, he started teaching graphic and type design at ESAL (Ecole Supérieure d'Art de Lorraine) in Metz. He also taught at National Institute for Typographic Research, Nancy, France. In 2012, he designed the sans family Instant, which could be bought from BAT Foundry, and, since 2014, directly from his own foundry, Knebusch. In Instant, each style corresponds to a speed or style of writing. After setting up Poem Editions, he designed Almost Roman and Almost Gothic (2012-2019). Almost sails between gothic and roman. All fonts take their inspiration from the period of 1459-1482 with Gotico-Antiqua typefaces like the Durandus (of Fust & Schöffer), the first type to present a humanistic tendency, probably based on the hand of Petrarch. A few years later Sweynheim & Pannartz used a type in Subiaco which some consider to be the first roman although gothic influences remain clearly visible. Roman type was finally defined in 1469-1470 in Venice by the de Spira brothers and Nicolas Jenson. Almost was awarded with the Certificate of Typographic Excellence in 2020 by the Type Directors Club. If (2017-2020) was developed by Jerome Knebusch and Constantin Pfeiffer. They write: Based on Futura Fett, released by the Bauer Foundry in Frankfurt in 1928, the type was pushed to extreme blackness without loosing its historical reference nor becoming a caricature. Decisions Paul Renner took to achieve maximum boldness like opening the counters of some letters were taken even further. The typeface, designed by Constantin Pfeiffer & Jérôme Knebush, was initially created during a workshop at the Gutenberg Museum Mainz on the occasion of the "Futura. Die Schrift" exhibition in 2017. Editor of Gotico-Antiqua, proto-roman, hybrid, 15th-century types between gothic and roman (2021, Atelier National de Recherche Typographique). This text has papers by Olivier Deloignon, Riccardo Olocco, Martina Meier, Nikolaus Weichselbaumer & Mathias Seuret, Dan Reynolds, Christopher Burke, Ferdinand Ulrich, Rafael Ribas & Alexis Faudot, and Jérôme Knebusch, and a foreword by Christelle Kirchstetter and Thomas Huot-Marchand. Knebusch writes about it: The book brings together researchers from the fields of typography, palaeography and incunabula studies, with a particular focus on type and letterforms. The relatively understudied period---after Gutenberg and before the consolidation of Jenson's model---extends from the earliest traces of humanistic tendencies to pure roman type, including many cases of uncertain or experimental design, voluntary hybridisation and proto- or archaic roman. In 1459 in Mainz, Johann Fust and Peter Schöffer printed the Rationale Divinorum Officiorum by Guillaume Durand, using a typeface (now known as Durandus) that looked like no other before. From that point, we can follow a wide variety of developments, partly related to the travels of early printers from the Rhine area to Italy and France. By extension, the private press movement initiated by William Morris and Emery Walker at the end of the nineteenth century in England, revived some of those typefaces before they were once more largely forgotten. Speaker at ATypI 2017 Montreal: Halbgotische, Gotico-Antiqua, Fere-Humanistica. Link for Atelier Jerome Knebusch.	EXTERNAL LINKS Poem Editions (or: Atelier Jerome Knebusch) [Buy fonts] Fontspring link [Buy fonts] MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Type design in France ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ German type scene ⦿ Commercial fonts (small outfits) ⦿ Blackletter fonts ⦿ Books on type design ⦿