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Poem is an independent publishing initiative related to text, type and typography directed by Jérôme Knebusch and located in Frankfurt am Main. Editions – artworks, typefaces, books, pamphlets, posters – are often based on longer research and meet the highest quality standards. They are distributed exclusively on our website and shipped worldwide.
Poem is an independent publishing initiative related to text, type and typography directed by Jérôme Knebusch and located in Frankfurt am Main. Editions – artworks, typefaces, books, pamphlets, posters – are often based on longer research and meet the highest quality standards. They are distributed exclusively on our website and shipped worldwide.
AuthorsX
Christopher Burke
Christopher Burke is a typographer, type designer and design historian. His principal area of research is twentieth-century graphic design. He has written two books: Paul Renner: the art of typography (1998) and Active literature: Jan Tschichold and New Typography (2007), both published by Hyphen Press. He has designed four typefaces: Celeste, Celeste Sans, Pragma and Parable. Burke is Associate Professor at the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, University of Reading, UK, and Research Fellow at the Vienna Circle Institute, University of Vienna.
Ange Degheest
Ange Degheest (1928-2009) studied engraving at the School of Fine Arts in Rennes. In the early 1950s, she was hired by the Fonderie Typographique Française (FTF) in Paris as the assistant of renowned type designer Enric Crous-Vidal. In 1960, after having briefly worked in Switzerland, she went back to Brittany in order to teach engraving and graphic arts, a position she would hold for the next 18 years. Degheest’s story is remarkable, yet it is astonishing and disturbing that her name has been forgotten amongst the list of those who have shaped the history of typography to this day.
Oliver Deloignon
Olivier Deloignon, holds a PhD in book & typography history, teaches at HEAR Strasbourg and is an associate professor in typography and editorial engineering at the University of Strasbourg. In 2010 he founded and has since directed the De traits et d’esprit laboratory devoted to research into printed artefacts. He was an expert consultant for the Gutenberg film (Arte, 2017) and is director of the collection devoted to the art of the book at Imprimerie Nationale éditions (Actes Sud). He has directed, written, co-written, edited or published numerous articles and books.
Alexis Faudot & Rafael Ribas
Alexis Faudot and Rafael Ribas met in 2017 at Atelier National de Recherche Typographique in Nancy where they worked on the Gotico-Antiqua research programme. Alexis had previously finished his studies at Fine Art School Besançon and Rafael at École Estienne, Paris. Both work independently as graphic and type designers.
Jérôme Knebusch
Jérôme Knebusch (Franco-German, 1978) works mainly on visual identity, book and type design projects, as author or independently for cultural institutions. Additional practices are research, curating and teaching. He is professor at École supérieure d'art de Lorraine Metz and Atelier National de Recherche Typographique Nancy. He founded and operates Poem.
Rudolf Koch
Rudolf Koch (1876-1934) is one of the most important German artists of the early 20th century. He was the principal type designer at the Klingspor foundry in Offenbach am Main. Known for his typefaces Kabel or Neuland, Koch did not restrict himself to cutting and designing type. He was intensively teaching at the Arts and Crafts School (now HfG Offenbach) and directed a 'Werkstatt', a workshop involving many collaborators like Fritz Kredl, Berthold Wolpe and Warren Chappell.
Martina Meier
Since completing apprenticeships as a polygrapher and graphic designer in 2011, Martina Meier has been working for brand agencies, design studios and book publishers. She studied type design at ZDdK Zurich where she graduated with a master's degree in 2018. She then founded her design studio Bureau Mia in Zurich.
Henri Michaux
The French writer, poet and painter Henri Michaux was born in the Belgian town of Namur in 1899 and spent his childhood in Brussels. He wanted to become a priest, but followed his father's wish and began to study medicine in 1919, but soon abandoned this plan and signed on as a seaman. After reading works by Lautréamont he began writing in 1922.
Sébastien Morlighem
Sébastien Morlighem is a teacher & researcher at the École supérieure d’art et de design d’Amiens (FR). A founder of the Bibliothèque typographique for Ypsilon Éditeur, he has coauthored several books & written many articles. He has also curated several conferences & exhibitions on graphic design, typography, & type design. He holds a PhD from the University of Reading (UK).
Randi Nygård
Randi Nygård (1977) is a Norwegian artist living in Oslo. She holds an MFA from the Art Academy in Trondheim. Her work often departs from scientific facts about how nature influences and is a fundamental part of society and culture. Her work has been exhibited at institutions nationally and internationally. She ocationally writes about art and nature and is a member of the interdiciplinary and ecological artproject Ensayos.
Riccardo Olocco
Riccardo Olocco is a type designer and member of CAST — Cooperativa Anonima Servizi Tipografici. Besides designing, he’s a researcher in the history of type and typography combining bibliographical knowledge with detailed analysis of letterforms. He has recently delivered a PhD thesis at the University of Reading concerning 15th-century Venetian roman types. When taking there an MA in typeface design he also fell in love with Bengali script. Prior to this he was a lecturer at the University of Bolzano. He currently lives in Bolzano, in northern Italy.
Éloïsa Pérez
Éloïsa Pérez is a graphic designer and typographer who graduated from the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris. Specialised in editorial design, she works in the various fields of contemporary publishing. Her current thesis (CELSA, Sorbonne-Université and ANRT, Nancy) deals with the use of typography in the teaching of handwriting in nursery schools. It is based on the development of her typographic device entitled 'Prélettres', intended to develop the graphic gesture of very young children.
Constantin Pfeiffer
Constantin Pfeiffer's passion for type design is based on a fascination for typography that evolved during his communication design studies at Hochschule Darmstadt. Despite type design, Constantin works in UX/UI design in his residence Berlin.
Étienne Pressager
Étienne Pressager is a French artist born 1958 in Épinal. He is represented by the art galleries Aline Vidal, Paris, Yves Iffrig, Strasbourg and Martagon, Malaucène. He teaches at École Nationale Supérieure d’Art et de Design in Nancy and lives and works in Malzéville.
Dan Reynolds
Dan Reynolds is an American design historian based in Krefeld. Before obtaining his doctorate from the Braunschweig University of Art in 2019, he spent most of his career as a font marketer and type designer. After seven years working at Linotype in Bad Homburg, he freelanced for companies like Darden Studio, FontFont, Google Fonts, Indian Type Foundry and Typejockeys before working at LucasFonts. Dan has taught at several German design schools, in Berlin, Darmstadt and Halle.
Alice Savoie
Alice Savoie is an independent type designer and researcher based in France. She holds an MA and a PhD from the University of Reading. Her recent type design work includes Faune, an award-winning typeface commissioned by the French Ministry of Culture, Romain 20 (205TF) and Lucette (Future Fonts). She was the lead post-doctoral researcher on the ‘Women in Type’ research project. She teaches at ANRT Nancy (France) and Écal Lausanne (Switzerland).
Kurt Schwitters
Kurt Schwitters was born on 20 June 1887 in Hannover. He studied at Kunstgewerbeschule in Hannover and Kunstakademie in Dresden. After serving as a draftsman in the military, Schwitters experimented with Cubist and Expressionist styles. In 1918, he made his first collages.
Konrad Sweynheim & Arnold Pannartz
To the end of 1464, the two clerics Konrad Sweynheim & Arnold Pannartz founded the first press in Italy, in the ancient Benedictine monastery of Subiaco. Sweynheim (of Schwanheim, near Frankfurt) came from Mainz and Pannartz from Köln. In 1467 they left Subiaco for Rome where they worked together until 1473.
Philippe Tytgat
Philippe Tytgat (1980) is an independent French graphic & motion designer living in Nancy. He has studied at École nationale supérieure d'art et de design Nancy, where he is currently teaching. He works mainly in cultural and musical sectors, creating visual identities and animations.
Ferdinand P. Ulrich
Ferdinand P. Ulrich (1987) is a Berlin-based typographer, design researcher, consultant and occasional type designer. He pursues a PhD at the University of Reading, researching the discourse during transitional phases of early digital type design. From 2012 to 2015 he was an associate lecturer at the University of Art and Design in Halle/Saale and has regularly been engaged in design education since, with emphasis on graphic design, typography and type design.
Nikolaus Weichselbaumer
Dr. Nikolaus Weichselbaumer heads the research project ‘Developing automatic font recognition and model repository for OCR-D’ at the University of Mainz. He received his PhD in book studies from Friedrich Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg with a thesis on the work of Hermann Zapf. His main research areas are the history of typography, reading and the early book trade.
Christopher Burke
Christopher Burke is a typographer, type designer and design historian. His principal area of research is twentieth-century graphic design. He has written two books: Paul Renner: the art of typography (1998) and Active literature: Jan Tschichold and New Typography (2007), both published by Hyphen Press. He has designed four typefaces: Celeste, Celeste Sans, Pragma and Parable. Burke is Associate Professor at the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, University of Reading, UK, and Research Fellow at the Vienna Circle Institute, University of Vienna.
Ange Degheest
Ange Degheest (1928-2009) studied engraving at the School of Fine Arts in Rennes. In the early 1950s, she was hired by the Fonderie Typographique Française (FTF) in Paris as the assistant of renowned type designer Enric Crous-Vidal. In 1960, after having briefly worked in Switzerland, she went back to Brittany in order to teach engraving and graphic arts, a position she would hold for the next 18 years. Degheest’s story is remarkable, yet it is astonishing and disturbing that her name has been forgotten amongst the list of those who have shaped the history of typography to this day.
Oliver Deloignon
Olivier Deloignon, holds a PhD in book & typography history, teaches at HEAR Strasbourg and is an associate professor in typography and editorial engineering at the University of Strasbourg. In 2010 he founded and has since directed the De traits et d’esprit laboratory devoted to research into printed artefacts. He was an expert consultant for the Gutenberg film (Arte, 2017) and is director of the collection devoted to the art of the book at Imprimerie Nationale éditions (Actes Sud). He has directed, written, co-written, edited or published numerous articles and books.
Alexis Faudot & Rafael Ribas
Alexis Faudot and Rafael Ribas met in 2017 at Atelier National de Recherche Typographique in Nancy where they worked on the Gotico-Antiqua research programme. Alexis had previously finished his studies at Fine Art School Besançon and Rafael at École Estienne, Paris. Both work independently as graphic and type designers.
Jérôme Knebusch
Jérôme Knebusch (Franco-German, 1978) works mainly on visual identity, book and type design projects, as author or independently for cultural institutions. Additional practices are research, curating and teaching. He is professor at École supérieure d'art de Lorraine Metz and Atelier National de Recherche Typographique Nancy. He founded and operates Poem.
Rudolf Koch
Rudolf Koch (1876-1934) is one of the most important German artists of the early 20th century. He was the principal type designer at the Klingspor foundry in Offenbach am Main. Known for his typefaces Kabel or Neuland, Koch did not restrict himself to cutting and designing type. He was intensively teaching at the Arts and Crafts School (now HfG Offenbach) and directed a 'Werkstatt', a workshop involving many collaborators like Fritz Kredl, Berthold Wolpe and Warren Chappell.
Martina Meier
Since completing apprenticeships as a polygrapher and graphic designer in 2011, Martina Meier has been working for brand agencies, design studios and book publishers. She studied type design at ZDdK Zurich where she graduated with a master's degree in 2018. She then founded her design studio Bureau Mia in Zurich.
Henri Michaux
The French writer, poet and painter Henri Michaux was born in the Belgian town of Namur in 1899 and spent his childhood in Brussels. He wanted to become a priest, but followed his father's wish and began to study medicine in 1919, but soon abandoned this plan and signed on as a seaman. After reading works by Lautréamont he began writing in 1922.
Sébastien Morlighem
Sébastien Morlighem is a teacher & researcher at the École supérieure d’art et de design d’Amiens (FR). A founder of the Bibliothèque typographique for Ypsilon Éditeur, he has coauthored several books & written many articles. He has also curated several conferences & exhibitions on graphic design, typography, & type design. He holds a PhD from the University of Reading (UK).
Randi Nygård
Randi Nygård (1977) is a Norwegian artist living in Oslo. She holds an MFA from the Art Academy in Trondheim. Her work often departs from scientific facts about how nature influences and is a fundamental part of society and culture. Her work has been exhibited at institutions nationally and internationally. She ocationally writes about art and nature and is a member of the interdiciplinary and ecological artproject Ensayos.
Riccardo Olocco
Riccardo Olocco is a type designer and member of CAST — Cooperativa Anonima Servizi Tipografici. Besides designing, he’s a researcher in the history of type and typography combining bibliographical knowledge with detailed analysis of letterforms. He has recently delivered a PhD thesis at the University of Reading concerning 15th-century Venetian roman types. When taking there an MA in typeface design he also fell in love with Bengali script. Prior to this he was a lecturer at the University of Bolzano. He currently lives in Bolzano, in northern Italy.
Éloïsa Pérez
Éloïsa Pérez is a graphic designer and typographer who graduated from the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris. Specialised in editorial design, she works in the various fields of contemporary publishing. Her current thesis (CELSA, Sorbonne-Université and ANRT, Nancy) deals with the use of typography in the teaching of handwriting in nursery schools. It is based on the development of her typographic device entitled 'Prélettres', intended to develop the graphic gesture of very young children.
Constantin Pfeiffer
Constantin Pfeiffer's passion for type design is based on a fascination for typography that evolved during his communication design studies at Hochschule Darmstadt. Despite type design, Constantin works in UX/UI design in his residence Berlin.
Étienne Pressager
Étienne Pressager is a French artist born 1958 in Épinal. He is represented by the art galleries Aline Vidal, Paris, Yves Iffrig, Strasbourg and Martagon, Malaucène. He teaches at École Nationale Supérieure d’Art et de Design in Nancy and lives and works in Malzéville.
Dan Reynolds
Dan Reynolds is an American design historian based in Krefeld. Before obtaining his doctorate from the Braunschweig University of Art in 2019, he spent most of his career as a font marketer and type designer. After seven years working at Linotype in Bad Homburg, he freelanced for companies like Darden Studio, FontFont, Google Fonts, Indian Type Foundry and Typejockeys before working at LucasFonts. Dan has taught at several German design schools, in Berlin, Darmstadt and Halle.
Alice Savoie
Alice Savoie is an independent type designer and researcher based in France. She holds an MA and a PhD from the University of Reading. Her recent type design work includes Faune, an award-winning typeface commissioned by the French Ministry of Culture, Romain 20 (205TF) and Lucette (Future Fonts). She was the lead post-doctoral researcher on the ‘Women in Type’ research project. She teaches at ANRT Nancy (France) and Écal Lausanne (Switzerland).
Kurt Schwitters
Kurt Schwitters was born on 20 June 1887 in Hannover. He studied at Kunstgewerbeschule in Hannover and Kunstakademie in Dresden. After serving as a draftsman in the military, Schwitters experimented with Cubist and Expressionist styles. In 1918, he made his first collages.
Konrad Sweynheim & Arnold Pannartz
To the end of 1464, the two clerics Konrad Sweynheim & Arnold Pannartz founded the first press in Italy, in the ancient Benedictine monastery of Subiaco. Sweynheim (of Schwanheim, near Frankfurt) came from Mainz and Pannartz from Köln. In 1467 they left Subiaco for Rome where they worked together until 1473.
Philippe Tytgat
Philippe Tytgat (1980) is an independent French graphic & motion designer living in Nancy. He has studied at École nationale supérieure d'art et de design Nancy, where he is currently teaching. He works mainly in cultural and musical sectors, creating visual identities and animations.
Ferdinand P. Ulrich
Ferdinand P. Ulrich (1987) is a Berlin-based typographer, design researcher, consultant and occasional type designer. He pursues a PhD at the University of Reading, researching the discourse during transitional phases of early digital type design. From 2012 to 2015 he was an associate lecturer at the University of Art and Design in Halle/Saale and has regularly been engaged in design education since, with emphasis on graphic design, typography and type design.
Nikolaus Weichselbaumer
Dr. Nikolaus Weichselbaumer heads the research project ‘Developing automatic font recognition and model repository for OCR-D’ at the University of Mainz. He received his PhD in book studies from Friedrich Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg with a thesis on the work of Hermann Zapf. His main research areas are the history of typography, reading and the early book trade.
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You can pay with Mastercard, Visa or American Express – or take contact for a bank transfer.
Payments are HTTPS encrypted and SSL secured and no credit card information is stored on the server.
The payment gateway integrates Stripe. You can also check out with PayPal if you prefer.
All licence purchases are one-time payments for perpetual use with no recurring fees.
Shipping
We ship worldwide and for free at 50€ in Germany, 100€ in the EU and 200€ in all other countries.
After you have completed your order you will recieve the confirmation and invoice by email.
You can download digital items directly after your purchase.
Physical items are sent with DHL, you will receive a notification when the order leaves the office.
Precious items – artworks, books, posters – are sent with tracking code, assurance and high quality packaging.
For any refused parcels or returned for wrong adress, eventual return shipping costs are at the charge of the customer.
Taxes
The prices exclude taxes, within EU 7% VAT applies on products and shipping costs.
Outside the EU no VAT applies, but local tax may apply at your charge by the post office.
Refunds
To be eligible for refund, pelase take contact before returning within 7 days after its arrival.
Refunds are possible only for unopend and unused items, and exclude shipping costs.
They have to be returned undamaged within 30 days and at your charge.
If you haven't received your order after 45 days, please take contact to be elligible for a refund.
All digital purchases are final and can not be refunded.
If defective and notified within 7 days, new files will be provided.
Privacy
We offer full privacy, this website does not track your visit and your personal information is kept confidential.
New clients are registered to an occasional newsletter from which you can opt-out any time.
Since our screen licences are unlimited in views/downloads you do not need to track your clients either.
Terms
Order
You can order as guest or create an account where you can store your adress and review your orders & invoices.
Payment
You can pay with Mastercard, Visa or American Express – or take contact for a bank transfer.
Payments are HTTPS encrypted and SSL secured and no credit card information is stored on the server.
The payment gateway integrates Stripe. You can also check out with PayPal if you prefer.
All licence purchases are one-time payments for perpetual use with no recurring fees.
Shipping
We ship worldwide and for free at 50€ in Germany, 100€ in the EU and 200€ in all other countries.
After you have completed your order you will recieve the confirmation and invoice by email.
You can download digital items directly after your purchase.
Physical items are sent with DHL, you will receive a notification when the order leaves the office.
Precious items – artworks, books, posters – are sent with tracking code, assurance and high quality packaging.
For any refused parcels or returned for wrong adress, eventual return shipping costs are at the charge of the customer.
Taxes
The prices exclude taxes, within EU 7% VAT applies on products and shipping costs.
Outside the EU no VAT applies, but local tax may apply at your charge by the post office.
Refunds
To be eligible for refund, pelase take contact before returning within 7 days after its arrival.
Refunds are possible only for unopend and unused items, and exclude shipping costs.
They have to be returned undamaged within 30 days and at your charge.
If you haven't received your order after 45 days, please take contact to be elligible for a refund.
All digital purchases are final and can not be refunded.
If defective and notified within 7 days, new files will be provided.
Privacy
We offer full privacy, this website does not track your visit and your personal information is kept confidential.
New clients are registered to an occasional newsletter from which you can opt-out any time.
Since our screen licences are unlimited in views/downloads you do not need to track your clients either.
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Print
The Print Licence (also called Desktop) is a non-exclusive, non-transferable per user licence.
Multi-User licence are for different users within one legal entity and on one geographical location.
It is unlimited in time and in number of edited documents (texts, images, video non-broadcast).
The files are delivered in OpenType PS format and work in Apple and Windows systems.
Embedding in PDF files must be in read-only mode.
Web
The Web licence covers an non-exclusive, non-transferable dynamic use of self-hosted font files per website.
It is unlimited in time and visitors/page views. A licence is needed for each domain, which can include sub-domains.
The Web font files are delivered in WOFF and WOFF2 (TTF) format supported by modern browers.
The font files have to be installed on your server and used via a CSS style sheet.
You have to enshure that the font files are not hot-linked, and garanty a relative protection against illegal download.
App/eBook
The App/eBook licence is an non-exclusive, non-transferable per-title licence, unlimited in time and downloads.
It covers the embedding of the fonts for read-only purposes in either one eBook or interactive PDF or game or software or app.
The files are delivered in OpenType TTF format and work in multiple operating desktop and mobile systems.
The fonts may not be embedded directly in standalone electronic devices or any hardware.
Other licences
Seperate licences are needed and available upon request to install the font files on a server, an electronic device or any other hardware, the use in movie titles, TV broadcasting and for a product or identity of a corporation getting significant value (brands, logos).
Trials
You can test the fonts on this website, and find detailled information in the downloadable PDF specimen.
We offer trial fonts (limited character set, no features) for testing only purposes on demand.
Educational
Students can contact us with a valid ID card to benefit of a significant 50% discount.
Fonts are fully functional and licences continue to be valid after the studies.
Upgrades
Discounts apply by a growing number of users or different fonts within a font family (packs).
You can upgrade at any moment paying only the difference of the respective prices (take contact).
Restrictions
It is strictly forbidden to convert, transform, adapt, modify, transfert, distribute or resell the font files in any way.
Each licence is nominative and must be purchased directly by the respective user.
EULA
The Print Licence (also called Desktop) is a non-exclusive, non-transferable per user licence.
Multi-User licence are for different users within one legal entity and on one geographical location.
It is unlimited in time and in number of edited documents (texts, images, video non-broadcast).
The files are delivered in OpenType PS format and work in Apple and Windows systems.
Embedding in PDF files must be in read-only mode.
Web
The Web licence covers an non-exclusive, non-transferable dynamic use of self-hosted font files per website.
It is unlimited in time and visitors/page views. A licence is needed for each domain, which can include sub-domains.
The Web font files are delivered in WOFF and WOFF2 (TTF) format supported by modern browers.
The font files have to be installed on your server and used via a CSS style sheet.
You have to enshure that the font files are not hot-linked, and garanty a relative protection against illegal download.
App/eBook
The App/eBook licence is an non-exclusive, non-transferable per-title licence, unlimited in time and downloads.
It covers the embedding of the fonts for read-only purposes in either one eBook or interactive PDF or game or software or app.
The files are delivered in OpenType TTF format and work in multiple operating desktop and mobile systems.
The fonts may not be embedded directly in standalone electronic devices or any hardware.
Other licences
Seperate licences are needed and available upon request to install the font files on a server, an electronic device or any other hardware, the use in movie titles, TV broadcasting and for a product or identity of a corporation getting significant value (brands, logos).
Trials
You can test the fonts on this website, and find detailled information in the downloadable PDF specimen.
We offer trial fonts (limited character set, no features) for testing only purposes on demand.
Educational
Students can contact us with a valid ID card to benefit of a significant 50% discount.
Fonts are fully functional and licences continue to be valid after the studies.
Upgrades
Discounts apply by a growing number of users or different fonts within a font family (packs).
You can upgrade at any moment paying only the difference of the respective prices (take contact).
Restrictions
It is strictly forbidden to convert, transform, adapt, modify, transfert, distribute or resell the font files in any way.
Each licence is nominative and must be purchased directly by the respective user.
