A Curtain-Raiser for the Nebiolo Story

This talk took place on March 29, 2021 as part of Type@Cooper's Lubalin Lecture Series at The Cooper Union.

A quick look at Italy’s major type foundry with M. Bernstein (Nebiolo’s early years), A. Colizzi (Giulio da Milano’s Neon), R. Olocco (light on Alessandro Butti’s work), J. Clough (150 years of Microgramma and Eurostile).

Marta Bernstein is a designer, researcher, teacher, and co-founder of the digital type foundry CAST. Type and typography are her true passions and the common threads of all her projects.

Alessandro Colizzi is associate professor of design at the Politecnico di Milano. He researches and teaches graphic design history, typography, and type design.

Riccardo Olocco is a typeface and graphic designer, co-founder of the digital type foundry CAST, researcher and visiting research fellow at the University of Reading. He lectures and writes on type.

James Clough moved from London to Milan in 1971 and pursued a career in typography and calligraphy. He lectures and writes on the history of typography and the graphic arts.

Speakers are members of the Nebiolo History Project.

A critical assessment of the Nebiolo heritage has been lacking since the closure of the company in 1978 and the subsequent dispersion of its archives. The NHP is now researching archival evidence and gathering first-hand memories of Italy’s most renowned type foundry. A conference with an international panel of experts to debate the issue will be convened in Turin before the end of September 2021.