Elementary typography
Jan Tschichold’s ideas about book design, 1925In 1923, typographer and book designer Jan Tschichold visited the first Bauhaus exhibition in Weimar; he was highly impressed by the exhibition which, as he wrote himself, gave a completely new direction to his creative development.
Encryptions and secret messages
The cryptological search for the right code To understand a script, you must understand its code. You have to know what meaning is hidden behind a character and what rules a string of characters follows.
Energy
The A-Z of industrialisationEnergy as understood in the natural sciences (Science) means the capacity to perform work (Businesses). Motors (Technology) transform forms of energy in such a way that they can be used commercially in production processes (Factory) and to transport goods and convey information (Networks). Hydropower and steam power transformed into electrical energy are a vital force driving the industrial society
Eternal truths?
The Nebra sky disk and the Voyager Golden RecordThey are seen as bearers of eternal truths and were designed to survive for more than 500 million years and/or outlast humanity. One is the Nebra sky disk, which was made in the Bronze Age, the other comes from our era of space travel, and is the Voyager Golden Record.
European type printing
Success from the serial production of movable typeThe invention of printing using movable type by Johannes Gutenberg marks the beginning of a far-reaching technical/industrial and scientific/cultural revolution in the early modern era. Gutenberg needed about ten years to find the suitable working materials for type printing and to try out tools and work steps.
Eurostile
A font like a tube televisionThe predecessor of Eurostile was the Microgramma type of 1952, which was designed by Alessandro Butti and Aldo Novarese as an uppercase typeface for bank printing purposes. Ten years later Novarese added the lowercase letters and called the typeface Eurostile.
Export stamps in the First World War
Censorship by the High Command, 1914-1918 Many books, pamphlets and magazines from the years 1914 to 1918 display a mostly unimposing mark of “Z XI”, “Z XIX”, “By”, a stylised Monument to the Battle of Nations or many other markings in a small circle or triangle o the title page. This stamp or stamp-like mark signifies that the piece of printed matter had been checked.
Factories
The A-Z of industrialisationFactories are large commercial enterprises in which semi-finished or finished goods are made ready for the market (Trade) in a process organised on the basis of a time schedule (Chronometer), with a & division of labour and the help of motors (Energy) and machines (Technology) in closed spaces. Investments (Capital) are needed to build and operate factories. The workers, educated to different degrees (Education), are paid different amounts (Wages) for their work.
False reports and newspaper hoaxes
Carelessness or deliberate trick?The history of false reports is presumably as old as the history of media itself. As far back as Antiquity the renowned, usually very vague prophecies of the Oracle of Delphi could hardly justify their at times considerable historical relevance.
FE-Schrift
Number plate font that is difficult to forgeThe FE typeface, developed in 1978-1980 by Karlgeorg Hoefer for the German Federal Highway Research Institute, has been used as the typeface for German vehicle number plates since 1994. This typeface has no uniform proportions.
