Gudrun Zapf von Hesse is a bookbinder, she was active as a lettering artist, she has produced many graphic works – and she is a type designer. After her apprenticeship in bookbinding with Otto Dorfner in Weimar, she ran her own workshop at the type foundries Bauer and Stempel. For almost 70 years she has been designing typefaces for metal, photo and digital type technologies.
