Title: Road to Basel
typographic reflections by students
of the typographer and teacher emil ruder
Hardcover: 96 pages
Publisher: helmut schmid design (1997)
Language: German, English, Japanese
Size: 257 x 262 mm / 101.1 x 103.1 inches
road to basel is the special issue of typographic reflections. This issue is dedicated to Emil Ruder by his students from typography course. Among of the students are Harry Boller, Roy Cole, Heini Fleischhacker, Fritz Gottschalk, André Gürtler, Hans-Jürg Hunziker, Hans-Rudolf Lutz, Fridolin Müller, Marcel Nebel, Åke Nilsson, Bruno Pfäffli, Will van Sambeek, Helmut Schmid, Peter Teubner, Wolfgang Weingart, and Yves Zimmermann. From their stories, we could sense how passionate Emil Ruder was. There is also an essay, on on drinking tea, typography, historicism, symmetry an asymmetry, written by Emil Ruder.
In this issue, the size is slightly larger than other issues of typographic reflections but Helmut Schmid still used the optical square for the book which he once inspired by the Japanese folk story book, Robundo. Scmid mentioned "the square is a peaceful shape and i like to use it but i am not fixed to it. it is the content that decides the shape."