#max caflisch

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Briefe von Albin Zollinger an Ludwig Hohl, Design and Typography by Max Caflisch, Verlag Hans Huber, Bern / Stuttgart, 1965 [Museum für Gestaltung Zürich]

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It's Fine Press Friday!

In getting ready for the weekend, we present this 1967 German edition of Aesop's fables, Drei Dutzend Fabeln von Äsop, published in Bern by Angelus Druck, with 36 original woodcut illustrations by Swiss artist Felix Hoffmann (1911-1975). The book was designed by Swiss book and type designer Max Caflisch (1916-2004), typeset in Poliphilus Antiqua, and printed in an edition of 200 copies signed by the artist.

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Wood Engraving Wednesday

FELIX HOFFMANN

This week we present some original wood engravings by the Swiss graphic designer and illustrator Felix Hoffmann (1911-1975) from the Limited Editions Club production of Death in Venice by Thomas Mann, designed by Max Caflisch and printed in 1972 at The Stinehour Press in an edition of 1500 copies signed by the artist. The three-color engraving used for the frontispiece was pulled at the atelier of the Aargauer Tagblatt in Aarau, Switzerland.

Felix Hoffmann was born in  Aarau, Switzerland, and lived there his entire life, even marrying one of the city’s most prominent politicians, Gretel Hoffmann-Kienscherf. In the early 1930s Hoffmann trained at the Karlsruhe Art School and the State School for Free and Applied Arts in Berlin where he focused mainly on woodcut and wood engraving. However, Hoffmann is also noted for his work in other media, including painting, frescoes, etching, stained glass, a 1957 Swiss Youth Book Prize and a 1962 New York Herald Tribune Children's Book Award.

UWM Special Collections holds two other Limited Editions Club publications illustrated with original wood engravings by Felix Hoffmann that we will highlight in future posts: Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1965) and Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain (1962), the only authorized set of illustrations for this text.

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syntax phonetic

proofs of settings in a phonetic font for american indian languages based on hans eduard meier’s syntax antiqua; phonetic sorts designed by bigelow & holmes in conjunction with meier. sent by b&h to swiss typographer max caflisch for appraisal.

for a setting in vanilla syntax antiqua vide ‹tesseract›.

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TM Research Archive – 1989 Issue 5

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Typographische Monatsblätter: 1988 / Issue 3 

Cover design: Max Caflisch (swiss typedesigner)