{"id":1451,"date":"2009-03-10T13:31:33","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T18:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=1451"},"modified":"2018-11-03T03:19:37","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T22:19:37","slug":"swiss-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/swiss-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss books&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/583_cover.jpg\" alt=\"583_cover.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/544_cover1.jpg\" alt=\"544_cover1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/235_jacket.jpg\" alt=\"235_jacket.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/586_coverbig.jpg\" alt=\"586_coverbig.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Confoederatio Helvetica<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Bibliophiles and typophiles alike will enjoy this richly annotated collection of \u201cbook (design) stories\u201d\u2014<em>from new typography to swiss style<\/em>\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/wiedler.ch\/felix\/books\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> (with a full index showing the nearly 600 titles <a href=\"http:\/\/wiedler.ch\/felix\/books\/index\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>). Takes me back to growing up in Basel-Land (just a few km from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/M\u00fcnchenstein\" target=\"_blank\">M\u00fcnchenstein<\/a>, where <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Helvetica\" target=\"_blank\">Helvetica<\/a><\/em> was designed) in the early 1960s\u2026<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>Images (from top): <\/em>Stile Olivetti<em> designed in 1961 by Walter Ballmer; <\/em>Typographische Mitteilungen<em>, 1925, by Jan Tschichold; <\/em>Der Film<em>, 1960, by Josef M\u00fcller-Brockmann, J\u00f6rg Hamburger, and Serge Stauffer; and <\/em>Pontresina<em> (ski-resort map) designed ca. 1935 by Emil Schultheiss.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Confoederatio Helvetica Bibliophiles and typophiles alike will enjoy this richly annotated collection of \u201cbook (design) stories\u201d\u2014from new typography to swiss style\u2014here (with a full index showing the nearly 600 titles here). Takes me back to growing up in Basel-Land (just a few km from M\u00fcnchenstein, where Helvetica was designed) in the early 1960s\u2026 Images (from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,6,7,14,16,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16530,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions\/16530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}