On 11 October at 11:15 a.m. Frank E. Blokland will defend his PhD dissertation at Leiden University. Blokland’s research is conducted to test the hypothesis that Gutenberg and consorts developed a standardised and even unitised system for designing and casting textura type, and that this system was extrapolated for the production of roman type in Renaissance Italy. For roman type, Humanistic handwriting was moulded into a prefixed standardised system already developed for the production of gothic type. This was possible because of the intrinsic morphologic relationship between the structures of the written textura quadrata and the Humanistic minuscule.
The invitation card was superbly printed (letterpress and embossing) by Youri Penders of the firm MoetMoet in the city of Maastricht (NL).
15 сен 2016