Video of Artist Rex Parker’s talk — “Frederic Goudy & H. G. Wells” at the University of Illinois Rare Book & Manuscript Library

View the video of artist Rex Parker’s talk — “Frederic Goudy & H. G. Wells: The Time Traveler’s Typeface” at The Rare Book & Manuscript Library University of Illinois.

It explores a book publishing dream team: Frederic Goudy, “The Titan of Type” and H. G. Wells, the “Time-Traveler Novelist,” and their remarkable collaboration on The Door in the Wall — a collection of thrilling short stories and the creation of a timeless typeface Kennerley Old Style.

Watch “Frederic Goudy & H. G. Wells: The Time Traveler’s Typeface” on YouTube: