[Warm congratulations to Professor Rudolf von Larisch on his seventieth birthday] Typographics2023 In November of 2023 Cyrus

In November of 2023 Cyrus Highsmith had a show in Tokyo called Alphabet Zoo

accompanied by more than a hundred of his fanciful illustrations

This volume from 1906 was edited by Austrian designer Rudolf von Larisch

It’s 1983

he introduced a new visual experience through his creation

[Warm congratulations to Professor Rudolf von Larisch on his seventieth birthday] Typographics2023 In November of 2023 CyrusWe dont really know the story of this one. What follows has a fact or two followed by some educated but potentially misleading guesses. Google Translate suggests that this is a birthday greeting for Rudolf von Larisch, the important Austrian calligrapher, editor of this book, and type designer (most recently covered in this fantastic book). Von Larisch would have turned 70 on April 1, 1926, which means this was most likely printed in that year. In