Rudolf Paulus Gorbach

Rudolf Paulus Gorbach (* 1939 ) is a German typographer , author and college teacher.

Life

Rudolf Paulus Gorbach (* 1939) first learned and worked as a printer after leaving school and also played the piano in a dance orchestra. After a few years he started studying printing technology and typography in Berlin with the money he had earned. After completing his studies, Gorbach worked for a year at Insel-Verlag in Frankfurt, after which he moved to Munich and became production and advertising manager at Hanns Reich Verlag. In 1970 Gorbach began giving courses for the Typographische Gesellschaft München . Since 1971 he has been running his own production office with a focus on international co-productions in image-text books in various areas.

Rudolf Paulus Gorbach founded a GmbH and a producing company in 1977 together with Hartmut Panskus. From 1990 he organized the annual typography course in Munich and the seminar "Didactic Typography" in Volterra. From 1996 to 2007 Gorbach was the first chairman of the tgm Typographische Gesellschaft München.

Since 1968 Gorbach has taught at the University of Applied Sciences in Munich, the University of Printing and Media Stuttgart, the Academy on Einsteinstrasse and holds numerous seminars at publishers, institutions, companies and other universities.

According to Gorbach, practical work and teaching are all about functional and attractive typographic design.

Publications

• Font review, EDTZ / Monotype . Ottobrunn 1991.
• Text design on PC or Mac . Ravensburger Verlag 1995, ISBN 3-473-48380-X .
• Reading Recognizing. A symposium of the Typographische Gesellschaft München . Munich 2000.
• Typography professional . Munich 2001, ISBN 3-934358-73-X .
• Poppies Poppies (Gabriele Stieghorst, cycle 16) . Munich 2004.
• Professional typography, special printing . Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-929691-11-5 .
• Intensive typography: a manual for beginners and professionals . Utting 2014, ISBN 978-3-944334-06-6 .
• Books and printed matter from tgm 1949 to 2009 . Munich 2015.

Contributions to edited volumes

• "The culture of reading and legibility" in: Language in the electronics industry . Electronic Promotion 1990.
• »Typography and comprehensibility« in: comprehensibility and usability of technical documentation, tekom . Schmidt-Römhild 2000, ISBN 978-3-944449-14-2 .
• »The role of typography in visual design« in: Yearbook for technical documentation . German specialist publisher 1994.
• »Using pictures - practical report from the design of print and screen projects« in: What is picture competence? Studies in image science . Deutscher Universitätsverlag 2003, ISBN 978-3-8244-4498-4 .
• »The image view of the designer. How applied visual designers deal with images «in: Image science between reflection and application . Herbert von Halem Verlag 2005, ISBN 3-931606-73-2 .
• »Image and typography. On the subject of images in typographic design «in Bildwissenschaft. Disciplines, topics, methods . Suhrkamp Verlag 2005, ISBN 978-3-518-29351-5 .

Magazine articles

Articles appeared in Börsenblatt , Druck und Papier , Page , Buchmarkt , Bilder Digital , Novum , Wörkshop , Chip , Microsoft System Journal , Print & Production , Management and Hospital , Value (magazine for media production and corporate communication) and Vier Seiten (tgm).

Web links

• Website office Gorbach