Biography
Book design, type design. Born 23 March 1906 in Waldkirch (Baden). Studied lithography at Karlsruhe Akademie. After training as a Meisterschuler of Rudolf Koch at Offenbach a.M., he taught graphics at the Freiburg Graphische Fachscule. Riedel then worked as the book designer for the Freiburg publisher Herder. Designed the typeface Domino (1954, Ludwig & Mayer). 1957: living in Freiburg.
Writings about
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- ‘Written and printed script’, Archiv für Buchgewerbe und Gebrauchsgraphik, Leipzig: Deutsche Buchgewerbeverein., 1937, pp. 21-7, esp. p. 23 ,
- showing of Domino, Gebrauchsgraphik (International Advertising Art), Berlin: Phönix Illustrationsdruck und Verlag GmbH (later: ‘Gebrauchsgraphik’ Druck und Verlag GmbH), 1933-71. Published from Munich from 1950., Nov. 1954, p. 63
- ‘Alfred Riedel, Freiburg i.B.’, Die zeitgemässe Schrift, Berlin/Leipzig: Verlag für Schriftkunde Heintze & Blanckertz., Jan. 1940 ,
- showing of Domino, Gebrauchsgraphik (International Advertising Art), Berlin: Phönix Illustrationsdruck und Verlag GmbH (later: ‘Gebrauchsgraphik’ Druck und Verlag GmbH), 1933-71. Published from Munich from 1950., Jan. 1957, p. 56