[Warm congratulations to Professor Rudolf von Larisch on his seventieth birthday] Typographics2023 Take your time

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he introduced a new visual experience through his creation

It was intended to be both an aide-mémoire of that exhibition

It eatures meticulous typographic layouts and illustrations from influential designers of the time and serves as a bridge between classical craftsmanship and the emerging modernist trends in European publishing

[Warm congratulations to Professor Rudolf von Larisch on his seventieth birthday] Typographics2023 Take your timeWe dont really know the story of this one. What follows has a fact or two followed by some educated but potentially misleading guesses. Google Translate suggests that this is a birthday greeting for Rudolf von Larisch, the important Austrian calligrapher, editor of this book, and type designer (most recently covered in this fantastic book). Von Larisch would have turned 70 on April 1, 1926, which means this was most likely printed in that year. In