Reviving Type
Reviving Type
Practice based research on Renaissance and Baroque Models compared and discussed
Céline Hurka and Nóra Békés

Publication, year
The Hague : Acute Publishing (Céline Hurka and Nóra Békés), 2019
Scope
158 Pages, illustrated, 23 cm.
ISBN
9789090321899

Reviving Type is a book on archive research and contemporary type design, written and designed by Nóra Békés & Céline Hurka, presented at ATypI 2019 Tokyo and at the House of the Book | Museum Meermanno in The Hague. The authors/ designers describe anddiscuss their empirical type revival processes. Their research (during their bachelor at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) The Hague) can be considered as an attempt to calibrate mind and eye. The result providesan in depth insight into their revival processes, forming a guide for further research into the fundamentals of historical type, and it functions as a cookbook for those who wnat to transfer their findings into a digital type revival.


Person as subject
Céline Hurka, Nóra Békés
Location
Cabinet 13 - 5: Grafische vormgeving ; Typografie
Remarks
Incl. Bibliography, Biographies