Europa: el surgimiento de una nación by Carl J. Friedrich
Source: www.todocoleccion.net torreonderueda1991 (edited). License: All Rights Reserved.
In a previous post, we saw how Daniel Gil let News Gothic gradually morph into Franklin Gothic, as a typographic metaphor for Kafka’s Metamorphosis. Around the same time, he used a similar idea to illustrate “Europe: the rise of a nation” with letterforms only. At the bottom, Europe starts as an undefined blobby mass. Gradually taking shape, it eventually emerges as a clearly contoured word (and concept). Again, Gil relied on the compact and straightforward capitals of Franklin Gothic Extra Condensed.
Carl Joachim Friedrich (1901–1984) was a German-American professor and political theorist. In the 1950s, he became the head of the European studies division at Harvard University. Friedrich also participated in a project to draft a constitution for the establishment of a European Political Community.
The Rise of Modern Europe. A Survey of European History in its Political, Economic, and Cultural Aspects From the End of the Middle Ages to the Present was first published by Harper & Brothers in 1952. Alianza Editorial’s paperback edition with a Spanish translation by Rafael Mazarrasa Martín-Artajo came out in 1973 – the same year the United Kingdom joined the European Communities (EC, the precursor of the EU), as the text on the back points out.
This post was originally published at Fonts In Use