Friedrich Forssman
Friedrich Forssman (born March 8, 1965 in Nuremberg ) is a German book designer , typographer , commercial artist and specialist author.
Life
Friedrich Forssman, son of the Indo-European Bernhard Forssman , grew up in Switzerland and Germany. He left high school in Marburg early to become a book designer. After his typesetter apprenticeship in Bamberg, he went to the technical college for design in Darmstadt and graduated in 1985 with the technical diploma. He first studied graphic design at the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences and then switched to Hans Peter Willberg at the Mainz University of Applied Sciences .
For redesigning the Gutenberg yearbook , Friedrich Forssman received the Gutenberg grant from the city of Mainz in 1990. Due to his student thesis on the possibility of typesetting for the typographically complex late work of Arno Schmidt , he received a position at the Arno Schmidt Foundation , for which he created a set version of Zettel's dream over many years . In 2008 he received a practical scholarship at the Villa Massimo in Rome. In October 2010, appeared in the publishing house Suhrkamp the Bargfelder output . Work group IV, volume 1. Standard edition. Zettel's dream as a set book. In 2017 Forssman received the Antiquaria Prize for Book Culture.
The "Reclam Library" series, launched in 2008, presents classics from world literature with special features. The series was designed by Friedrich Forssman and Cornelia Feyll and was awarded 2nd prize in the book art competition “The Most Beautiful Books 2008”.
Forssman is married to the textile designer Cornelia Feyll and lives in Kassel.
Fonts
- with Hans Peter Willberg : Reading typography . Verlag Hermann Schmidt, Mainz 1997, ISBN 3-87439-375-5 .
- with Hans Peter Willberg: First aid in typography . Verlag Hermann Schmidt, Mainz 1999, ISBN 3-87439-474-3 .
- with Ralf de Jong : detailed typography . Verlag Hermann Schmidt, Mainz 2002, ISBN 3-87439-568-5 .
- for Arno Schmidt Foundation: Arno Schmidt: Zettel's dream . In: Bargfelder Ausgabe, Werkgruppe 4, Vol. 1, Arno Schmidt Stiftung (Ed.), Verlag Suhrkamp, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-518-80310-3 .
- How I design books . Aesthetics of the Book, Volume 6. Wallstein-Verlag. Goettingen. 2015. ISBN 978-3-8353-1591-4
literature
- W. Brückle: Entry: Forssman, Friedrich . In: Saur. General artist lexicon. Volume 42. Page 438. KG Saur. Munich. Leipzig. 2004. ISBN 978-3-598-22740-0 ( excerpt , accessed October 27, 2011).
- Alexander Cammann: The God of Scripture from Kassel . In: Literatures. July 2011. Page 44. Retrieved October 27, 2011.
Web links
- Literature by and about Friedrich Forssman in the catalog of the German National Library
- Private website
- Good type : Portrait of Friedrich Forssman ( brand eins , 10/2012)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Villa Massimo | Friedrich Forssman. Retrieved August 21, 2019 .
- ↑ 23rd Antiquarian Prize for Book Culture goes to Friedrich Forssman , buchmarkt.de, November 21, 2016, accessed on November 22, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Forssman, Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German book designer, typographer, commercial artist and specialist author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 8, 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nuremberg |