Graphische Nachrichten was a German trade journal for graphic arts professions, published by the Gutenberg-Bund, a Christian trade union in the graphic arts industry.

This issue was published for Johannistag (St. John’s Day) 1932. Topics covered included the limits of quality in machine typesetting compared to manual typesetting, the Intertype double-decker model F, and the advantages of the Typograph typesetting machine “Universal B”. See the original post on Flickr for a full list of contents (in German).

The typeface “Energos”, provided to us for printing by Schriftguss A.-G. vorm. Brüder Butter, Dresden, makes a good, powerful and energetic impression.

Like Mammut (1928) and Signal (Production Type) (1930), Energos is one of the many low-contrast script typefaces that popped up around the time. Designed by Arno Drescher, it was released just before the issue came out. A year later, in 1933, Schriftguss added the lighter Appell.

Each issue of the graphic arts journal Graphische Nachrichten had a completely unique cover design employing various typefaces, lettering, and/or illustration. In this case, two fairly new Rudolf Koch faces were used. (Prisma was released just the year before, in 1931.) And the type even got a credit at the bottom of the cover.