Project 5 Research

Paul Renner was born on August 9, 1878 in Wernigerode, Germany. He worked during the 1920s through 1950s. He wrote two major typography texts one called Typografie als Kunst (Typography as Art) and Die Kunst der Typografie (The Art of Typography). He created the well know Typeface called Futura in 1928, as well as Plak (1928), Futura Black (1929), Futura Light (1932), Ballade (1938), and Renner Antiqua (1939). Futura is what he is most known for and it has been used for Ikea the well-known home supply store as well as in Calvin Klein ads. Renner worked as head of Commercial Art and Typography department at the Frankfurter Kunstschule in 1925-1926. In 1926 he was the Director of Munich's Grafische Berufsschulen. Before 1932 Renner published "Kultur Bolschewismus?" ("Cultural Bolshevism?") which discussed his opposition to the Nazis. He was arrested and then removed from his post in Munich in 1933 after the Nazis seized power of Germany. His book was removed from the Germany Book Market until 2003 because it opposed the Nazi Regime.

Sites

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Renner

http://www.itcfonts.com/Ulc/2533/BookRevRenner.htm

www.linotype.com/762/paulrenner.html

Inspiration for Project 5

This photo is from Vogue

http://www.vogue.com/

http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine

http://www.time.com/time/

Project 4