Hermann Zapf - Publications

Publications

• Jerry Kelly, 'Hermann Zapf - A survey of his early books', in Parenthesis; 16 (2009 February), p.12-15
• Calligraphic Salutations: Hermann Zapf’s Letterheadings to Paul Standard is a collection of calligraphic embellishments that appeared at the heads of letters written by Hermann Zapf to Paul Standard in the 1940s and 1950s.
• August Rosenberger 1893–1980; A Tribute to one of the Greatest Masters of Punchcutting, an Art Now All but Extinct is Zapf's tribute to August Rosenberger through Zapf’s recollections of their collaboration both during and after World War II in Germany.
• The World of Alphabets by Hermann Zapf; A Kaleidoscope of Drawings and Letterforms is a CD-ROM that illustrates Hermann Zapf's typographic designs.
• Spend Your Alphabets Lavishly! * The work of Hermann & Gudrun Zapf is a collection of the works by Hermann and Gudrun Zapf.
• Alphabet Stories: A Chronicle of Technical Developments by Hermann Zapf (Alphabetgeschichten in German edition) is a narrative encompasses Hermann Zapf's life and work from his childhood days in Nuremberg though to his newest typeface releases with Linotype GmbH. The first edition was published in 2007.

Second edition was published in 2008, which added a 2-colour insert of letterpress-printed broadside designed by Zapf, typeset and printed at the RIT Cary Graphic Arts Collection using Zapf's metal Virtuosa font.