[a letter from Lucian Bernhard to F.H. Ehmcke] designbrief and Ryan Gander

and Ryan Gander

Looks like good and interesting and boundary-pushing stuff

*In Lance Hidy’s Posters (1983)

All are remarkably inventive

[a letter from Lucian Bernhard to F.H. Ehmcke] designbrief and Ryan GanderUm. Do you have any idea what this is? Its a typed letter from Lucian Bernhard to F. H. Ehmcke, sure. But in this letter Bernhard accuses the Berthold foundry of ripping off his poster lettering and issuing their Block. Scandal! We dont have time to look into this further, but we are intrigued. Bernhard is asking Ehmcke for help in the matter, but, annoyingly, the letter is incomplete. Still, a fascinating document about type designs oldest