Giambattista Bodoni is a Italian typographer designer from the 18th centuy. Giambattista Bodoni was born on Febuary 26, 1740 in Saluzzo. He was a Italian engraver, publisher, printer and typographer. Bodoni is well known for his type face ”Bodoni”. i have chosen to write about a type writer from a completely different generation to explore how the methods have changed over years.
He came from a printing family. At 18, Bodoni went to Rome and became a pupil of Abbate Ruffierei in the Vatican polyglot press of the Propaganda Fide. In 1768, Giambattista Bodoni took over leadership of the ducal printers in Parma – the “Stamperia Reale”. His employer, Duke Ferdinand, had nothing less in mind than to accumulate the greatest wealth of Italy’s writings in his print shop.
Giambattista developed a completely new kind of type which refrained from decorative padding and was conceived solely on the criteria of symmetry and proportionality. In this way, the classical font “Bodoni” emerged, a masterpiece of typography, which would be used untold times by other typesetters. he used original method such a engraving type designing, typography, printing and publishing
Mike Byrne 