Experimental typography

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  • Aldo Novarese

    €80.00

    Limited edition of 50 numbered copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter, and letterpress-printed.

    This booklet is a homage to Italian type designer Aldo Novarese in the centenary of his birth (1920-2020). It has been typeset by hand in types he designed, which were cast by Nebiolo Foundry in Turin. 

  • Alessandro Butti creatore di tipi

    €100.00
    Limited edition of 300 copies typeset by hand in movable types and letterpress-printed. 
    First and comprehensive tribute to the most prominent Italian type designer in the period 1930-1950s and his very successful types. 

  • Giulio Da Milano creatore di tipi

    €120.00

    Limited edition of 120 copies typeset by hand and letterpress-printed.
    First and comprehensive typographic tribute to one of the most inventive 20th-century Italian type designers who created four iconic typefaces.

  • Types for Advertising - specimen book (Vol. III)

    €520.00

    Fifty 20th-century masterpieces of Advertising created by the world’s foremost type designers

    This unique type specimen book allows you to see types in their original design, without the intervention of digital manipulation. In fact, this is the only collectable series typeset by hand in original foundry types, cast between the 1900’s and 1970’s by the most notable European and North-American foundries.

  • types for Advertising - specimen book (VOL. I)

    €520.00

    Fifty 20th-century masterpieces of Advertising created by the world’s foremost type designers

    This unique type specimen book allows you to see types in their original design, without the intervention of digital manipulation. In fact, this is the only collectable series typeset by hand in original foundry types, cast between the 1900’s and 1970’s by the most notable European and North-American foundries.

  • Types for Advertising - specimen book (Vol. II)

    €520.00

    Fifty 20th-century masterpieces of Advertising created by the world’s foremost type designers

    This unique type specimen book allows you to see types in their original design, without the intervention of digital manipulation. In fact, this is the only collectable series typeset by hand in original foundry types, cast between the 1900’s and 1970’s by the most notable European and North-American foundries.

  • Italian wood types - specimen book 1/2

    €580.00

    Type specimen book printed from wood types cut by hand in Italy between the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth century.

    Their kaleidoscopic expressiveness, either Apollonian or Dionysian, oldstyle or fanciful, reflects the scope of Italian creativity in the field of wood type engraving.

    This edition is part of the collections of major libraries, in Italy and abroad.

  • 19th-century masterpieces of type design

    €720.00

    19th-century masterpieces of type design created by the world’s foremost type designers.

    A collection of 50 specimens typeset by hand in original 19th-century movable metal types.

    Limited and numbered edition of 150 copies.

    This unique type specimen book allows you to see types in their original design, without the intervention of digital manipulation. In fact, this is the only collectable series typeset by hand in original foundry types, cast between the 1800’s and 1890’s by the most notable European and North-American foundries.

  • Italian wood types - specimen book 2/2

    €720.00
    The present alphanumeric series is printed from big, original wood types, which were handcrafted in Italy between 1850 and 1950 to be used on large broadsides. 
    In fact, for over a century, opera and theatre plays, circus shows and fairs, political rallies and new movie releases were advertised using these iconic typefaces.
  • Libroinfinito

    €750.00

    Print run of 18 copies. 
    A tribute to the 26 letters of the alphabet which give form to Literature, Libroinfinito is designed so as to create a circular, 'infinite' reading experience. Design by Giulio Iacchetti & Tallone Press.

    This is one of 18 numbered copies printed on white "Umbria" paper handmade in Fabriano.