Typeface design education from Cooper Union
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Gudrun Zapf on Her Centennial
with Jerry Kelly

In her biography of Adobe type designer Carol Twombly, Nancy Stock-Allen cited Gudrun Zapf as the first woman who made a career as a type designer. Jovica Veljovic, a great type designer himself, has called Gudrun Zapf’s Diotima type the greatest type of the twentieth century. Yet, despite a couple of monographs, Gudrun Zapf’s work as a calligrapher, type designer, and bookbinder is not very well known. No doubt this is partly due to her being overshadowed by her tremendously talented husband, Hermann Zapf, who also worked in the fields of calligraphy and type design; and partly it is because of Gudrun's modest and self-effacing nature. In this lecture, we will dive deeper into the work of this exceptional artist, who has made a major contribution to the worlds of alphabet design and book art.

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When:
Mon, February 25, 2019, 2025

Where:
The Rose Auditorium at Cooper Union
41 Cooper Square (at East 7th Street)
New York, NY 10003

The Herb Lubalin Lectures are recorded and made available here and on Vimeo with the generous support of Hoefler&Co.

About Jerry Kelly

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Jerry Kelly is a calligrapher, book designer, and type designer working in New York. His work in these fields has won numerous awards, including from the Type Director’s Club, Society of Typographic Designers, and more than thirty selections in the prestigious AIGA “Fifty Books of the Year” award. In 2015 he was presented with the 28th Goudy Award from RIT.He has also written numerous articles and several books on calligraphy and typography, including Artist and Alphabet (The American Institute of Graphic Arts & David R. Godine, 2000), A Century for the Century (The Grolier Club, 2000), and The Art of the Book in the Twentieth Century (Rochester Institute of Technology, 2011). Before starting his own business in 1998, Kelly was Vice President of The Stinehour Press, Vermont; preceded by a decade as designer at The Press of A. Colish, New York. Since 1977 he has actively maintained a small fine printing operation, The Kelly-Winterton Press. In addition, he has taught at The Pratt Institute, Parsons School of Design, Society of Scribes, etc., and lectured widely. Kelly served as Chairman of the Board of the American Printing History Association, President of The Typophiles, and as an active member of several committees at The Grolier Club, New York. He is an Honorary Member of the Double Crown Club (London), and a corresponding member of the Bund Deutsche Buchkunstler (Munich).