What I learned from reading Jan Tschichold, Master Typographer: His Life, Work, and Legacy

Jan Tschichold was the author of Die Neue Typography (The New Typography), the the designer of a number of typefaces (including Sabon, Transit, Zeus and others) and a public lecturer and teacher. Join me in this conversation as we study the life, work, and influences of Jan Tschichold.

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(1:33 ) Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead by Jim Mattis

(4:33 ) Two of Tschichold's early sources of education: Writing & Illuminating & Lettering by Edward Johnston and Unterricht in ornamentaler Schrift (Instruction in Ornamental Writing) by Rudolf von Larisch

(6:22 ) Tschichold first visits the Bauhaus

(7:37 ) Gropius: The Man Who Built the Bauhaus by Fiona MacCarthy

(16:37 ) The New Typography by Jan Tschichold

(20:11 ) Ogilvy on Advertising by David Ogilvy

(25:35 ) Tschichold is invited by Paul Renner to teach typography and calligraphy at the Vocational School for Graphic Arts in Munich

(30:09 ) Tschichold is offered the headmaster's post at the Department of Typography at the Berlin Higher Vocational School for Graphic Arts

(31:43 ) Tschichold is arrested by the Nazis

(36:03 ) Tschichold begins to reconsider his work on the New Typography

(38:30 ) Propaganda by Edward Bernays

(40:29 ) Letter Forms by Stanley Morison

Typefaces designed by Jan Tschichold:

Transit, Saskia, Zeus, Uhertype-Standard-Grotesk, and Sabon