A photo of an engraved wall with writings and stone figures on it.
a group photo of people sitting on stairs
A photo of a person sitting in a stoned square and taking a picture.
A photo of a group of people walking in an old paved square near ancient buildings.
A group of people standing in the street and looking at something.
A group of people walking on a crosswalk.
A wall with a stone engraving that depicts some letters and an angel with a fasce.
A group of people taking pictures and looking at an engraved stone wall.
A man giving a lecture to a group of people in an ancient stoned square.
A modern cubical building with glass windows and a stone wall near it.
An ancient building with engravings on the side walls.

Day Nine: Zennaro Talks Type (in Latin)

Jun 07 2010

Photos (except bottom two) by Jonathan Ro-Scofield

Kicking off the Roma portion of the Masters Workshop, Mauro Zennaro introduced the roots of of Western type design. Pointing out that it took two to create the inscriptions on which we build modern alphabets (a drawer and engraver), he looked backward and forward at type design. He ended by showing his own typefaces, including ones designed based on lettering found in Pompeii and at the Biblioteca Angelica in Rome. He concluded the morning with a walking tour past the Museo dell’ Ara Pacis (the “oldest peace monument in Roma” enclosed in a covering building designed by Richard Meier).

 

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