Pierre Marteau
Getting past the censor with fake imprintsSeveral hundred books appear from one publisher over the course of around two hundred years, a publisher like no other until then. The enterprising mock publishing house that went by the names of Pierre Marteau or Peter Hammer operated in Cologne at some times, in Amsterdam at others, more rarely at other locations.
Hrabanus Maurus
Abbot at the spiritual heart of the Frankish Empireum 780-856Hrabanus Maurus was a renowned scholar from an early age. He became a leading figure of the Carolingian Renaissance after spending time at the court of Charlemagne and as a pupil of Alcuin
Marshall McLuhan
The medium is the message.1911-1980Marshall McLuhan was born in 1911 in Alberta, Canada and became a professor at the University of Toronto in 1952. Due to his influential published works, and also due to his charismatic personality he is regarded as one of the most important media theorists of the 20th century.
Philipp Melanchthon
The humanist1497-1560Philipp Schwartzerdt was a man of small stature, susceptible to illness but exceptionally talented. Using the Greek form of his name, Melanchthon, he became one of the most revered scholars of the Renaissance period.
Max Miedinger
Creator of a typographic world brand from Switzerland1910-1980In the second half of the 1950s, the Swiss graphic designer Max Miedinger created, in Helvetica, one of the defining typefaces of the 20th century. He developed his professional expertise by means of a typesetting apprenticeship and studies at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Zurich (now Zurich University of the Arts).
Stanley Morison
New design for a world famous magazine1889-1967The striking new letter design introduced in The Times of London on October 3, 1932 signalled the beginning of an unexpected typographical success story. Within just a few years, Times New Roman had become the widely established font standard for book design.
William Morris
Artist, manual worker and social reformer1834-1896The books issued by the Kelmscott Press, established in the London district of Hammersmith in 1891, were products of a new style: the Arts and Crafts Movement. The aesthetic programme set by William Morris, the founder of the press, was to make the entire living environment into a gesamtkunstwerk.
Robin Nicholas
Long-standing director of typography at Monotype UK*1947Born in 1947 in Westerham, in the English county of Kent, Robin Nicholas was hired by the London-based Monotype Corporation in 1965, a company that was at that time still largely known as a manufacturer of typesetting machinery. He began his career at Monotype as an apprentice in the company’s type drawing office, which he went on to manage for a period of 10 years, starting in 1982.
Aldo Novarese
Creator of his own typeface classification system 1920-1995Aldo Novarese was born in the small Italian town of Pontestura Monferrato in 1920. He attended the Scuola Arteri Stampatori school of graphic art in nearby Turin from 1931 to 1933 where he studied wood engraving, copper engraving and lithography.
Johann Philipp Palm
A victim of Napoleonic justice 1766-1806On the 16 July, 1806, three copies of the banned anonymous pamphlet Deutschland in seiner tiefen Erniedrigung (Germany in its Deep Humiliation) were confiscated in an Augsburg bookshop. Under interrogation, the book dealer revealed that the pamphlets had been delivered to him by the Stein book dealership in Nuremburg.
