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1. The Art of Hermann Zapf
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A film on the purpose and techniques of calligraphy. Presented and produced by Hallmark. Filmed at Hallmark cards during a visit by Mr. Zapf. Production manager Noel Gordon. Script outline Peter Seymour. Script editor Richard Rhodes. Camera Direction Frank Robinson. Associate cameraman Heinz Burger. Idea and direction Harald Peter.

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  • Felipe Bastos 2 years ago
    Precious art!
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  • Ast A. Moore 1 year ago
    Simply wonderful.
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  • ktx 1 year ago
    type porn
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  • Any idea in which year this was produced? Thanks.
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  • Eye Media 1 year ago
    A present-day successor: calligraffiti. See Calligraffiti: the art of Niels Shoe Meulman (blog.eyemagazine.com/?p=532) on the eye blog (blog.eyemagazine.com).
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  • Johnny Dib 1 year ago
    Johno this must be the mid to late sixties 60s. He says "I started lettering by myself about 30 years ago" If he was 18 that's 1936.
    They mentioned computers in the video I wonder what they meant about that, but even though it's in colour I don't think it's the seventies because by then Jim Parkinson had left Hallmark vimeo.com/10430622
    And I think Parkinson refers to this visit in the FontCast interview.
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  • Juan Gomez 1 year ago
    what a wonderfull piece of work! :) Thanks for sharing
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  • exellent doc, thanks a lot for sharing.
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  • Artifacts 1 year ago
    Beautiful
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  • Jan Mika 1 year ago
    Super, thanks :)
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  • Pedro Amado 1 year ago
    Rudolf Koch I know, but who is the Edward Charleston that Zapf mentions at 06:22? He says he's studied their manuals but I can't seem to find any reference of the later on the web. Does anyone know?

    BTW, great documentary. Love the reference to the sumi ink and the way you should fill your pen nib ;)
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  • Pedro Amado 1 year ago
    Sorry, not Charleston... Edward Johnston! This one I also know! ;) ...
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  • Johnny Dib 1 year ago
    Hey Jonathan Fleck, thanks for the Linotype reference.
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  • Alvaro Cuesta 1 year ago
    I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Hermann Zapt in the First Congress of Typography '1CT' of Valencia/Spain. Even at his age retains an impressive ductus.
    Thank you for this beautiful video! :)
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  • Jason Alejandro 1 year ago
    What an incredible resource! I can't wait to show this to my students in History of Visual Communication this Fall. Thanks!
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  • fotinos 1 year ago
    Great! This video has been mentioned here: illustratedmemories.blogspot.com/2010/09/art-of-hermann-zapf-by-johnny-dib.html let me know if you mind
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  • Luke Jones 1 year ago
    What an amazing video, thank you for uploading it.
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  • Kim Taylor 9 months ago
    lovely
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  • Florin Florea 3 months ago
    Excellent!
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  • Gustaf Fjelstrom plus 6 days ago
    Mesmerizing!
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