![]() ![]() You can access the digitised works by clicking on “Medium öffnen”. Various options are available for researching the digitised part of Jan Tschichold’s estate:ĭirect access through the catalogue of the German National Library displays all the 2,184 resources which are freely available online. Grafik: DNB, CC BY SA 3.0 DE Research information ![]() The CC-BY-SA 4.0 license now allows free access to the works for the first time, thus responding to international interest in Tschichold's life's work. Those of Tschichold’s designs which contain photographs or texts by unknown third parties, for example, are therefore excluded. The digitisation project was strictly limited to works in which no other persons hold rights or which are already in the public domain. The digitised materials encompass designs from various creative periods: early works from his time at the Leipzig Academy, designs from the New Typography spectrum and drafts for his font Sabon to book designs dating from the last few years of his life. Designs for fonts, commercial prints and occasional prints are available as high-resolution scans. Most of Tschichold’s works digitised during the project consisted of book designs for various publishers. The materials in the estate have been catalogued using the “Ressourcenerschließung mit Normdaten in Archiven und Bibliotheken“ (Resource Cataloguing with Authority Data in Archives and Libraries - RNAB) standard This means that Tschichold’s individual designs and book projects can now be searched by place of origin, client, publisher and subject heading for the first time. DNBLab also provides access to the metadata, which has been enriched with the vocabulary used by the Integrated Authority File (GND). ![]() The bundle can be downloaded free of charge in DNBLab under licence CC-BY-SA 4.0. The scans and their metadata can be researched in the catalogue of the German National Library and will also be available via the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (German Digital Library) and Europeana in the future. Most of these works are designs by Jan Tschichold himself dating from 1918 to his death in 1974. The project has now made more than two thousand works that can be legally published in the internet and are accessible online all over the world in the form of some 23,000 scans. Digital access to the collection is particularly important to preserve the pages, some of which are extremely fragile. The cooperative project by the German Museum of Books and Writing and the University of Erfurt, which was funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), provides free access to Jan Tschichold’s estate from anywhere in the world. : Jan Tschichold: Designs for the font “Sabon” … Project Digitising Jan Tschichold’s estate ![]()
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