Type by Aldo Novarese is the most direct encounter currently available with the work of one of the 20th century's most influential Italian type designers, presenting facsimile reproductions of his Nebiolo Foundry specimens exactly as they were first designed to be seen.
About This Book
Aldo Novarese spent his career at the Nebiolo Foundry in Turin, producing typefaces and the exquisite promotional booklets — foundry specimens — used to introduce them. These specimens were themselves designed objects: carefully composed, commercially purposeful, and now highly collectible. This volume draws from the Letterform Archive's holdings to reproduce a selection of Novarese's specimens in facsimile, giving designers and typographers unmediated access to Italian type design at its mid-century peak. The format mirrors the specimens' original ambition — a trifold hardcover portfolio with an inside pocket of smaller booklets — making the book itself an act of typographic design history.
Key Features
- 156 pages of facsimile foundry specimen reproductions from the Letterform Archive collection
- Authored by Aldo Novarese (1920–95)
- Trifold hardcover portfolio format with inside pocket containing smaller facsimile booklets
- Published by Letterform Archive Books
What You'll Discover
- Novarese's foundry specimens reproduced in facsimile — showing typefaces in the promotional contexts for which they were originally designed
- The visual and commercial logic of mid-century Italian type foundry culture, embodied in the specimen booklet form
- The breadth of Novarese's output at Nebiolo, one of Europe's most significant type foundries of the 20th century
- A publication format that itself enacts the object it documents — a trifold hardcover portfolio echoing the specimen tradition
About the Author
Aldo Novarese (1920–95) is widely regarded as one of the most significant Italian type designers of the 20th century. He worked principally with the Nebiolo Foundry in Turin, where he designed typefaces and the foundry specimens used to present them.
Specifications
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 156
- Dimensions: 31.8 x 24.1 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9798989142354
- Publisher: Letterform Archive Books
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Graphic designers, typographers, type historians, and collectors with an interest in mid-century Italian type design and foundry culture.