A customized TT Norms Pro is the basis for the new logo of Sartorius AG. It is also used as the corporate font.

Sartorius AG is an international pharmaceutical and laboratory equipment supplier, covering the segments of bioprocess solutions and lab products & services.

Der Schatz der Sierra Madre (The Treasure of Sierra Madre), 1966. This western written and directed by John Huston is an adaptation of B. Traven’s 1927 novel of the same name, and was first released in 1948.

Hans Hillmann (1925–2014) was a big fan of Kabel schmalhalbfett, or Kabel Bold Condensed (1928). Shown here are two posters (DIN A1, 59×84 cm) for re-releases of movies starring Humphrey Bogart, designed for Neue Filmkunst Walter Kirchner in Göttingen.

Hillmann contrasted the big bold letterforms with smaller type from another member of the same type family, the delicate Kabel leicht (1927). He used these typographic ingredients for the poster for Der Malteser Falke (1972), too, another film featuring Bogart, which has been posted here before.

Tote schlafen fest (The Big Sleep), 1972. Originally released in 1946, this film noir directed by Howard Hawks is an adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s novel from 1939.

Two volumes from Robert Frank’s series of visual diaries, published by Steidl in 2012 and 2016, respectively. Both booklets use Erik van Blokland’s FF Trixie on the cover.

The lines are printed in white, in multiple and big sizes, with moderate tracking. None of these aspects is really coherent with what a typewriter can do, revealing that this – of course – is a multi-processed emulation of typewritten text, using a digital font. And yet Trixie works it magic, lending an aura of authenticity and immediacy to the books. With its smudged, irregular shapes, the typeface manages to suggest that these letters come right from the fingertips of Robert Frank – intimate and unfiltered.

You Would contains recent images, some shot on 35 mm, others Polaroids, of Frank’s friends, acquaintances and surroundings in New York and Mabou, Nova Scotia. In the book are also iconic images from earlier in Frank’s career such as a photo of Delphine Seyrig and Larry Rivers on the set of Frank’s 1959 film Pull My Daisy. This careful edit of new and old suggests that past experience tempers Frank’s present, and shows that his life is not only recorded by book-making but shaped by it.

Was haben wir gesehen / What we have seen is all about people and places in the long and very convivial life of Robert Frank. […] Frank’s visual diaries constitute an important part of both his later work and the ongoing art of the photobook.

Robert Frank passed away this week at the age of 94. See the obituaries in the New York Times and the Guardian.

The slipcase shows a reversed, positive version of the cover design.

The textured cover in warm grey is followed by blue endpapers.

Spread from You Would.

While You Would features a center-aligned title – another thing that is difficult to achieve with an actual typewriter – the arrangement of Was haben wir gesehen / What we have seen doubles down on the pretended mechanical manufacture by aligning the lines imperfectly.

Spine and slip case. The visual diaries each have 48 pages and measure 20.5×25 cm.

Spread from Was haben wir gesehen / What we have seen.

Published in 2009, Chanel’s Russian Connection features the first use of KLTF Kerl. The condensed all-caps grotesque was specifically designed for this application. While the book by Karl Lagerfeld is out of print, the font is now publicly available for the first time. Previously referred to under the working title KLTF Titles, Karsten Luecke revisited this “simple, no-nonsense, honest” face and released it on his KLTF label. The final name, Kerl, is the German equivalent of the English guy, sport, or chap. The retail version of KLTF Kerl comes in bold and bold italic styles. There’s no lowercase, but wider alternates for some characters in four widths, Cyrillics, and circled numbers, among other extras.

Peripatetic Chanel head designer, book publisher, photographer – and now, film director – Karl Lagerfeld founded Metiers d’Arts in 2002 to showcase the talents of Chanel’s seven specialist ateliers (that provide the couture house with costume jewelry, embroidery and millinery). This volume focuses on Chanel’s 2008–2009 Metiers d’Arts collection Paris–Moscow. If Paris–Moscow indulges Lagerfeld’s fascination for Russia through fashion, then Russian Connection is that fascination embodied in book form. Lagerfeld’s images evoke Imperial Russia, Constructivism, Catherine the Great, Faberge, Russian folklore and Coco Chanel’s own passion for Russia, via the great Ballets Russes, Byzantine jewelry and her affair with the Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich.

Paperback, 22×25 cm. ISBN-13: 978-3865219237.

Movie poster by Hans Hillmann for the German screening of The Maltese Falcon by Neue Filmkunst Walter Kirchner, featuring the not commonly seen Kabel Condensed. Last week, Hillmann passed away at the age of 88. Fontblog has posted an obituary (in German).