Typography Tuesday
Last week we highlighted a typographic display of David Bethel’s Glint type ornaments arranged and letterpress printed by the Milwaukee-born letterpress printer Michael Tarachow at his Pentagram Press. This week we present a selection of handset type displays by Tarachow from his 1988 book The Pentagram Press Commonplace Book, printed in an edition of 176 copies signed by the printer. This was his Tarachow’s first book printed in Minneapolis after moving there from Markesan, Wisconsin. He subtitles the book A Selection of Typographic Interpretations and states that it “required 112 press runs (time is the invisible factor!) on Arches Wove, which amounts to nearly 28,000 impressions.”
With the exception of George Bernard Shaw, the quotes are by type designers and letterpress printers: Leonard F. Bahr, Rudolf Koch, Eric Gill, Philip Gallo, Bruce Rogers, Wisconsin letterpress printer and outdoorsman David Brosshard, and Tarachow’s spouse and printing partner Merce Dostale. Click on the images to view the types used.
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