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Jessica Farrell-Jobst: Jobbing printers working for local government in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Nuremburg

Jessica Farrell-Jobst is a senior PhD candidate at the University of St Andrews, where she is currently completing her doctoral thesis. Her research examines the multifaceted ways women participated in the early modern book trade. Her project focuses on the printing and production trades within the imperial free city of Nürnberg during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Jessica is also a student researcher at the Universal Short Title Catalogue transcribing the Frankfurt and Leipzig Fair Catalogues for the seventeenth century.

Pierre Pané-Farré and Dan Reynolds in conversation: Discoveries in the archives: nineteenth-century German wood types and sans-serif foundry designs

Pierre Pané-Farré is a type designer born in Germany. Pierre studied at the Fachhochschule in Wismar and, later, at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig, class of 2012. His thesis focused on the development of the book cover in the early 19th century, while his practical work explored and revived the technique of compound-plate printing, using Pierre's own woodcut poster types. Pierre lives and works in Leipzig. He co-founded Forgotten Shapes in 2017. His study, What came after black and red, which deals with color and chromatic typefaces in the German print industry in the nineteenth century, was published in Vom Buch auf die Strasse: Grosse Schrift im öffenlichen Raum (Journal der HGB, no. 3, 2014), Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig.

Dan Reynolds, is an American researcher in Germany. Coming from a type and graphic design background, he submitted his doctoral thesis to the Braunschweig University of Art in 2019. Since then, his research has focused on physical objects from the Deutsches Technikmuseum in Berlin’s printing collection and type specimens from the old H. Berthold AG library in the same museum’s historical archive. In 2020, he joined a project initiated by the Verein für die schwarze Kunst to digitise those specimens – as well as similar items at Berlin’s Staatsbibliothek and Kunstbibliothek – and published them online. Dan teaches typography at the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences and lives in Krefeld.