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Written by Marta Bernstein on 2025-01-21 at 21:52

One of Italy’s best comedian, Corrado Guzzanti, made this satire called “Fascisti su Marte” (Fascists on Mars) that is hilarious. Here with subtitles. https://youtu.be/vnDeX5EMy88?feature=shared

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Written by Marta Bernstein on 2025-01-20 at 03:08

@MoritzBrouhaha @lisahuang it was cool hanging out with you! See you at the next conference

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Written by Marta Bernstein on 2025-01-16 at 23:24

If you want to know more about the ugly/beautiful 19th Century type I am researching, there are a few talks available online:

Type @ Cooper 2022 https://vimeo.com/723377298

Letterform Archive 2020 https://vimeo.com/421315079

Typographics 2019 https://2019.typographics.com/schedule/marta-bernstein 5/

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Written by Marta Bernstein on 2025-01-16 at 23:19

This time I’ll focus my talk on the process of finding primary sources and retrieving information from type specimens, magazines, newspaper articles, local registries. Where do you start if you don’t know what to look for? How do you find primary sources? What is available online? How do you access libraries and private archives? And in particular: How do you build a database to keep track of information? 3/

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Written by Marta Bernstein on 2025-01-16 at 23:19

Type historians don’t talk enough about how start a research, how to organize materials and informations. I hope my journey as an independent researcher digging in the past of my home country will inspire and support more people to do the same: because so much of the history of type is yet to be rediscovered, made accessible, preserved, archived, narrated. 4/

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Written by Marta Bernstein on 2025-01-16 at 23:19

I started my research in 2005 with the aim of filling a gap in Italian type history: not much was known about the hundred years between the death of Bodoni, in 1813, and the raise of Nebiolo type foundry. Starting from a list of specimens, I have been tracking the resources that did not get lost. The project expanded to map the type foundries active in Italy, their production, and the evolution of the local type founding industry 2/

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Written by Marta Bernstein on 2025-01-16 at 23:19

I'll be a speaker at Face/Interface 2025 at Stanford this coming weekend with the talk "Researching Italian type history: on analog and digital archives, and a scrappy database".

It’s a great conference with amazing speakers. You can register online here, for free https://www.eventbrite.com/e/faceinterface-2025-global-type-design-and-human-computer-interaction-tickets-1078509744679 1/

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Written by Marta Bernstein on 2025-01-14 at 02:50

Speaking of archives and research: the amazing Letra Muerta in Brooklyn are looking for an intern (paid) to help archiving https://www.instagram.com/p/DEyIUIKOHS-/?igsh=cjgxZjExcXV5d2Ny

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