Karl Gerstner: Typographisches Memorandum gehennapress This is the story of

This is the story of what happened next as it covers thirty years of Baselian posters made in the 1950s into the 1980s

the former director of the Haas’sche Schriftgiesserei

The balanced and neutral appearance of Helvetica forgoes a high degree of expressivity—a quality for which it is both criticized and admired

it attempts to establish the foundations for Arabic type design by drawing lessons from past practices and aesthetic conventions

Karl Gerstner: Typographisches Memorandum gehennapress This is the story ofThis special issue of Typografische Monatsbltter features 35 pages dedicated to Karl Gerstner and marked the end of his work as a designer and typographer. He was dedicating himself to art. Gerstner wrote that whereas his seminal Compendium for Literates contained theory, the pages of the this memorandum showed those theories in practice. So, very special indeed. And its loaded with old graphic ads and a showing of typographic posters. From the