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A Beautiful Book Is a Compliment to the Author and a Declaration of Love to the Reader
March 3, 2014 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
How good typography and passionate manufacturing can help the book to survive the 21st century.
Bertram Schmidt Friderichs is a typographer, manufacturer and publisher of books from the hometown of Gutenberg, Mainz, Germany.
For over 20 years, he’s published books on typography and graphic-design. Many have won awards around the world. He fights for higher quality in book production and dreams that basic typographic skills be taught at school. Currently, he is TDC board member and liaison chairman for the German TDC members.
He will talk about his passions, mistakes and successes in book design; with both images and printed pieces. See and feel with your own hands his work.