Join CD faculty member Paul Shaw with Linda Florio, and Scott-Martin Kosofsky for the book launch and signing of THE ETERNAL LETTER.
Admission is Free! Register here.
Thursday February 19 from 6:00 – 8:00 pm
The Type Directors Club
47 West 36th Street, Suite 603
About THE ETERNAL LETTER: Surveys the persistence of the classical Roman capital over two millennia with essays on letterers E.M. Catich and Walter Kaech,; type designers Frederic W. Goudy, Eric Gill, Jan van Krimpen and Hermann Zapf; the recalculation of Trajanic capital proportions by early typefounders; first-hand accounts of the designs of modern typefaces in the classical vein by Matthew Carter, Jonathan Hoefler, Lance Hidy, Julian Waters and Werner Schneider; a conversation with the letter carvers John and Nicholas Benson and Richard Kindersley; the birth and remarkable life of Adobe Trajan; and more.