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Biography on Aldo Novarese

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Aldo Novarese was born on June 29, 1920 in Pontestura, Italy a small town in the Piedmont region. He sadly passed away at an early age of 75 in Turin, Italy; 1995. He gave forty years of dedicated work and service; created more than one hundred text and display designs, alongside of two books and a well known character classifications. In Novareses’s younger years his family relocated from Pontestura to Turin where his father worked as a customs agent. At the tender age of 11 he began attending the “Scuola Arteri Stampatori” (School of Printing Crafts), where he learned woodcutting, etching, copper engraving and lithography. After completing 2 years he then attended “Scuola Tipografica Giuseppe Vigliardi Paravia” (Printing School and Allied Arts) which focused on the technical side of typography. With the skills he acquired at the age of 16 he obtained a job working at the main Italian font foundry and printing machine factory, Turinese Nebiolo. Working as a draftsman he was the pupil of Alessandro Butti, the art director whom was a well known Italian type designer. Butti took Novarese under his wing and made him his assistant. In 1938 with just being at the foundry under 2 years Novarese was awarded a gold medal in the National Ludi Juveniles art competition. At the height of World War II in 1939 he was incarcerated for protesting the war, but was given leniency toward hard work because of the medal he had won in 1938. It’s to be said that his character became shy and

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