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Timm Rautert

otl aicher / rotis
By Timm Rautert
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otl aicher / rotis celebrates the iconic Rotis typeface created by German designer Otto "Otl" Aicher, showcasing its deep ties to Rotis, the village in Leutkirch im Allgäu where Aicher lived and worked. The book features a series of photographs by Timm Rautert taken between 1972 and 1991, alongside his personal reflections on collaborating with Aicher, including their joint work on the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra book. Additionally, it contains essays by historian Dan Reynolds and professor Oliver Klimpe, exploring the font family's design and the cultural context of Rotis village.
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Ideal for graphic designers, typographers, art historians, and admirers of German design and culture seeking an in-depth look at one of the 20th century's most influential typefaces and its creator.

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It is my conviction that our culture of writing has by no means reached an end, and we must make a contribution to an open culture of writing and reading. - Otl Aicher

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This book celebrates the most famous typeface of renowned German graphic designer and typographer Otto "Otl" Aicher (1922-1991), the Rotis font family, along with its connections to Rotis in the city of Leutkirch im Allgäu, where Aicher lived and ran his studio.

The basis of otl aicher / rotis is a series of photographs by Timm Rautert, which he took on numerous visits to Rotis between 1972 and 1991. Rautert also writes, for the first time, about working with Aicher, revealing the details of their collaborations, including their book on the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.

An essay by typographer and design historian Dan Reynolds explores the creation and aesthetics of the Rotis font family, including Rotis grotesk, Rotis semi-grotesk, Rotis semi-antiqua, and Rotis antiqua—altogether 17 font styles. Meanwhile, former design professor Oliver Klimpe examines Rotis the place from today's globalised perspective: of a different ecological and political era, off the beaten track yet privileged, in the heart of West Germany.

otl aicher / rotis is published in anticipation of the hundredth anniversary of Aicher's birth in 2022.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783958298750

Publisher: Steidl Publishers

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 13 May 2021

Country: Germany

Imprint: Steidl Verlag

Illustration: 72 Illustrations

Contributors:

  • Designed by Holger Feroudj
  • Edited by Ute Eskildsen
  • Edited by Gerhard Steidl
  • Text by Otl Aicher
  • Text by Oliver Klimpel
  • Text by Dan Reynolds

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 175.0mm

Height: 230.0mm

Weight: 580g

Pages: 160

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Timm Rautert

About the Author

Born 1941 in Tuchel, West Prussia, in 1941, Timm Rautert studied photography with Otto Steinert at the Folkwang School of Design in Essen in the 1960s. Starting in the 1970s, he mainly concentrated on photojournalism and documentary work, and in 1993 was appointed professor of photography at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig, where he taught until 2008. In the same year, he was the first photographer to receive the Lovis Corinth Prize. His books with Steidl include When We Don't See You, You Don't See Us Either (2007), No Photographing (2011), Josef Sudek, Prague 1967 (2016), Vintage (2017), Germans in Uniform (2018), Anfang/Beginnings (2019) and Bildanalytische Photographie / Image-Analytical Photography, 1968-1974 (2020).

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