Anyone of a certain age who worked in the graphic arts industry will be familiar with a type case. For all others, it was a wooden tray with lots of sections that held lead type at a printers. Capital letters were on the right-hand side, lowercase letters, numbers, punctuation and spacing material in bigger sections on the left.
Arno Stolz was a typesetter and had the brilliant idea of writing to creative folk around the world to ask for small items to go in his type case. It eventually filled two of them. The book reproduces the letters and items he received. Sixty-nine pages at the back of the book have essays (in German and English) about the contributors, which originally appeared in Graphis and other design magazines.
The book will interest creative folk and maybe inspire some to buy an old type case (available on the net) and create their own wall art.
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