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MY ACCOUNT / LOGIN MY SHOPPING CART presented in: F2F MadZine™ Script MY FAVORITES HOME FONT FINDER FONT PRODUCTS FONT SERVICES FONT LOUNGE NEWS SUPPORT COMPANY FONT LOUNGE > FONT FEATURES > GOTTFRIED POTT – A LOOK INTO THE WORLD OF CALLIGRAPHY Go to Font Features Search Back to Font Feature Archive Find further Font Features in our Font Feature German version Archive. Gottfried Pott – A Look into the World of Calligraphy Gottfried Pott FONT OF THE WEEK Calligraphy has long been neglected by many professional The Music of Lettering FONT DESIGNERS typographers, but the Type Directors Show suggests that The Evolution of Lettering TYPE GALLERY "Lettering" is an important discipline in the field of typography in From Calligraphic Exercises to Type Design FONTS IN USE the United States. The number of fonts inspired by handwriting is Calligraphic Tools − Special Pens growing along with the interest in calligraphy. Linotype presents FONT FEATURES Ruling Pen here a look into the world of calligraphy, written by the LEARN ABOUT TYPE Round Nip internationally known expert, Gottfried Pott. MOVIE FONTS Pen Manipulation BOOKSHOP Gottfried Pott Bamboo − Reed Pen FONT LINKS Gottfried Pott, born 1939, studied graphic design at the Tool − Exeriment SUBMIT FONTS Werkkunstschule in Wiesbaden with emphasis in lettering art under Writing Surface Prof. Friedrich Poppl. At the same time studies in painting with Practical Suggestions Prof. Vincent Weber and studies in music with Peter Kempin. Stick Ink Activities: Exhibits, workshops, development of type faces, as well Minor Details - Big Effects as limited edition publication of calligraphic works. Since 1988 Filling the Pen Gottfried Pott Professor for Calligraphy and Lettering Design at the University for Applied Science and Art at Hildesheim/Holzminden. He is a member Works of Gottfried Pott of the Bund Deutscher Buchkünstler (Association for German Book Artists). The exhibition "LetterArt" of Gottfried Pott took place in Caste Waldthausen in Mainz-Budenheim, Germany, from 6–27 October. The variety and quality of the works presented made the showing a great success. This article presents a look into the world of calligraphy and includes excerpts from "Schrift · Bild · Klang. The Music of Lettering". In this book, Gottfried Pott combines text and images to beautifully illustrate the connection between calligraphy and music. Though the complexity of the theme allows only a brief presentation here, the parallels Pott draws between attributes common to the arts of handwriting and music are a good introduction to his ideas. * SCHRIFT · KLANG · BILD – THE MUSIC OF LETTERING from Gottfried Pott, published by Verlag Hermann Schmidt, Mainz more... 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MY ACCOUNT / LOGIN MY SHOPPING CART presented in: Linotype Seven™ MY FAVORITES HOME FONT FINDER FONT PRODUCTS FONT SERVICES FONT LOUNGE NEWS SUPPORT COMPANY FONT LOUNGE > FONT FEATURES > GOTTFRIED POTT – A LOOK INTO THE WORLD OF CALLIGRAPHY Go to Font Features Search Back to Font Feature Archive Gottfried Pott – A Look into the World of Calligraphy Gottfried Pott FONT OF THE WEEK The Music of Lettering The Music of Lettering FONT DESIGNERS The phenomenon of the art of lettering has been with us since the very The Evolution of Lettering TYPE GALLERY beginning of writing. This surely comes from the desire to express the From Calligraphic Exercises to Type Design FONTS IN USE content of the text in a very specific way. Each era has had its own Calligraphic Tools − Special Pens forms of artistic expression, and so it is with lettering. The art of FONT FEATURES Ruling Pen lettering is the art of "subtle" notes, as in chamber music, for example, LEARN ABOUT TYPE Round Nip where the fine, in-between notes also become audible or visible. MOVIE FONTS Emanating from England prior to and at the beginning of the 20th Pen Manipulation BOOKSHOP century, the art of lettering received new impulses by such great Bamboo − Reed Pen FONT LINKS reformers as William Morris, Edward Johnston, and Alfred Fairbank. In Tool − Exeriment SUBMIT FONTS Germany other important lettering artists such as Rudolf Koch in Writing Surface Offenbach, F. H. Ernst Schneidler in Stuttgart, and Walter Tiemann in Practical Suggestions Leipzig continued that development. They in turn were followed by Stick Ink Hermann Zapf, Karlgeorg Hoefer, Friedrich Poppl, Albert Kapr ... who Minor Details - Big Effects continue to inspire the many lettering enthusiasts all over the world. Filling the Pen For some time now have been fascinated with the topic of musicality and Works of Gottfried Pott lettering. An invitation to teach at the International Conference of Calligraphy in San Francisco in 1989 intensified my interest even more. Georgianna Greenwood, the conference director from Berkeley. and her organizing team had put this conference under the aegis of "experiment." The key word was team teaching which meant that for the duration of one week two faculty members where to share in the teaching of one group of students – a rather daring concept. It truly was a challenge and an honor for me to plan and execute a workshop together with my friend and mentor, Karlgeorg Hoefer. Our long-term, well-tuned partnership became the capital from which both of us could draw. And thus the experiment turned into success. When I ask myself why we succeeded, I can only say that we complemented one another in an ideal manner. We were "tuned in" to one another. Another great source in recognizing the relationship between lettering and music has been my own training in music which I pursued parallel to my studies in graphic design. The topic of music and calligraphy continued to captivate me long after the workshop in San Francisco and so I expanded its concept, and in the course of my workshops and seminars in Belgium, Italy, Canada, and the United States I was able to develop it further during the following years. more... 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MY ACCOUNT / LOGIN MY SHOPPING CART presented in: Basilia™ Regular Italic MY FAVORITES HOME FONT FINDER FONT PRODUCTS FONT SERVICES FONT LOUNGE NEWS SUPPORT COMPANY FONT LOUNGE > FONT FEATURES > GOTTFRIED POTT – A LOOK INTO THE WORLD OF CALLIGRAPHY Go to Font Features Search Back to Font Feature Archive Gottfried Pott – A Look into the World of Calligraphy Gottfried Pott FONT OF THE WEEK The Evolution of Lettering The Music of Lettering FONT DESIGNERS The development off lettering during the last 15 years has also The Evolution of Lettering TYPE GALLERY been accompanied by a growing interest in writing on the part of From Calligraphic Exercises to Type Design FONTS IN USE the industry. There is an abundance of tools, papers, colors, and Calligraphic Tools − Special Pens other materials on the market today that would have been hardly FONT FEATURES Ruling Pen conceivable earlier on. Unfortunately, currently available fountain LEARN ABOUT TYPE Round Nip pens still leave a lot to be desired in terms off elasticity. A few MOVIE FONTS years ago a person with a pen in hand was greeted with a funny Pen Manipulation BOOKSHOP little smile. Today many typeface houses like to incorporate a Bamboo − Reed Pen FONT LINKS calligraphic feel into their software fonts. The liberation from the Tool − Exeriment SUBMIT FONTS typeface block opens up undreamt of possibilities but has also Writing Surface jeopardized the art of lettering. It is certainly true that interest in Practical Suggestions lettering has grown but the everpresent access to electronic media Stick Ink has often hindered access to the actual lettering form. A feeling for Minor Details - Big Effects lettering comes from writing. I believe, along with many of my colleagues. that a concentrated study of working with the pen is Filling the Pen nearly indispensable and absolutely necessary in order to acquire a Works of Gottfried Pott certain instinct and sensitivity for form. The repertoire of our history of writing is an eternal source of inspiration. Yet copying is not necessarily the goal in this instance, as necessary as it might be.