Otfried Preußler exhibition

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The illustrations are taken from two of Preußler's most famous works, Die kleine Hexe and Der Räuber Hotzenplotz, by Winnie Gebhard and F.J. Tripp, courtesy of Esslinger Thienemann Verlags GmbH.

Der Mensch braucht Geschichten — "Humans need stories". Poster and flyer for an exhibition about German children's books authorJoos, an upright italic inspired by the work of Joos Lambrecht, a sixteenth-century printer and punchcutter from Ghent.

Behold the First Spiekermann Dictum: "Where two consecutive lines are closely spaced, […] then in 99 per cent of cases the descender and the ascender will meet and overlap." Line-spacing has been increased for the flyer, shown below.

Photo: Florian Hardwig. License: CC BY-NC.