[Warm congratulations to Professor Rudolf von Larisch on his seventieth birthday] Typographics2023 and clues in here to

and clues in here to great things

accompanied by more than a hundred of his fanciful illustrations

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

It was intended to be both an aide-mémoire of that exhibition

don’t get us started on parents

[Warm congratulations to Professor Rudolf von Larisch on his seventieth birthday] Typographics2023 and clues in here toWe 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