Ferdinand P. Ulrich

Recent articles by Ferdinand P. Ulrich

Typographics 21: Session 6

Issue 102, Autumn 2021

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YuJune Park and Caspar Lam hosted a session dedicated to East Asian languages and scripts, during which their selected speakers from Hong Kong …

Typographics 21: Session 3

Issue 102, Autumn 2021

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To address issues of Turkish and Persian typography, Chicago-based curator Pegah Ahmadi selected speakers who share the experience of …

Minjoo Ham: Ode to darkness

Issue 100, Summer 2020

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Minjoo Ham’s charming heavyweight Hangul typeface, inspired by Korean movie posters, is now available in a Latin version

Last man casting

Issue 98, Spring 2019

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Rainer Gerstenberg is one of the few people in the world to cast foundry type, keeping alive a craft that was developed more than half a millennium ago

From punch cutters to number crunchers

Issue 94, Summer 2017

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In the summer of 1983, a Stanford seminar became a milestone in the long transition from craft to code