International Center for the Typographic Arts

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The International Center for the Typographic Arts (ICTA) was an international association of leading typographers in the 1960s and 1970s.

The ICTA was founded in 1960 by the American typographer Aaron Burns and the Swiss typographer Emil Ruder . The members of the ICTA were initially largely committed to the factual typography of the so-called Swiss School , which had developed on the basis of Emil Ruder and Armin Hofmann at the Basel School of Design and Art . The members of the ICTA included a. from Germany Bruno Bergner , Anton Stankowski , hace Frey and Hermann Zapf , from Switzerland Hans Neuburg , Josef Müller-Brockmann and Walter Haettenschweiler , from the Netherlands Piet Zwart and Wim Crouwel , from the USA Lou Dorfsman and Japan Masaru Katzumie and Hiromu Hara .

In the 1960s she hosted symposia on contemporary typography, the Vision '65 at Southern Illinois University (SIU) , Carbondale, and the Vision '67 at the Loeb Student Center in New York City . Another symposium that had already been planned, Vision '69 , did not materialize.

Due to different currents in typography and the associated different views, the ICTA ceased its work in the early 1970s.

President

Publications

  • Typomundus 20. A project of the International Center for the Typographic Arts. A collection of the most significant typography of the 20th century. Text by Max Caflisch and Hans Neuburg. New York, Reinhold Pub., London, Studio Vista Ltd., Ravensburg, Otto Maier Verlag 1964, 1966 (2).
  • Typomundus 20/2. Text by Kurt Weidemann and Rudolf Rieger. Munich, Intergraphic Gallery 1970.
  • V 65: New Challenges for human communications. Conference proceedings (self-published) 1965.
  • DICTA newsletter. Journal, New York (self-published) 1966 to 1970.
  • Report. Journal of Section Germany, Bad Homburg (self-published) / only one issue published in 1965.