Linotype’s Offices: The Old and New

Rob — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 13:32:40 +0000

Linotype switched buildings in early September 2008. The first row of images shows the old offices from the DuPont building in Bad Homburg, Germany. Removed from these incredible facilities, the new offices are in the Lilly building – also in Bad Homburg. The company formerly occupied one floor but is now separated into four floors. This has had the effect, in my opinion of course, to make it seem more divided and to make the communication between departments even more difficult. And oddly enough, despite being surrounded by glass walls, the halls are more empty and the place usually looks rather bare. In any case, the new cafeteria is significantly better than in the old one and we now have awesome coffee machines on each floor!

Spy Photos from Linotype’s Vault

Rob — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:00:16 +0000

Linotype has a large underground vault to safely archive, hold, hide, protect, and get out-of-the-way substancial collections of old stuff. Here you can see a special peek inside to get a rare glimpse of the contents. There are old matricies, books, and original drawings among the stacks. As you can see, not all non-Latin materials are actually in Reading as proven by these Amharic drawings. There were several other original artifacts including Devanagari films. The comic is from Linotype’s interesting “fonts over the phone line” sales campaign (comics in numerous languages). Some other items not pictured are old servers, thousands of friskets for photo-typesetting, correspondences from old type projects (such as the development of Helvetica), troves of financial documents, and other misc old things.

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Linotype’s Offices: The Old and New

Spy Photos from Linotype’s Vault