Constructa Urban Systems
Constructa may refer to: * a digitized form of Tower (typeface), a slab serif typeface *Constructa (company), a German brand of major appliances from the manufacturer Constructa-Neff Constructa-Neff Vertriebs-GmbH (formerly ''Neff GmbH'', stylized as NEFF in its logo) is a German manufacturer of high-end kitchen appliances headquartered in Munich, Germany. The company was founded by Carl Andreas Neff in 1877 and has been a ...

Tower (typeface)
Tower was a slab serif typeface designed by Morris Fuller Benton for American Type Founders and based upon his earlier design for Stymie, but with straight sides to the round letters emphasizing the vertical appearance. Tower Italic was designed but not cast. In 1936, Tower Bold was started by the same designer, but was instead made into Stymie Bold Condensed.Mac MacGrew, "American Metal Typefaces of the Twentieth Century," Oak Knoll Books, New Castle Delaware, 1993, p. 309., . Digital type Tower was digitized as Constructa by Elizabeth Cory Holzman for Font Bureau The Font Bureau, Inc. or Font Bureau is a digital type foundry based in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. The foundry is one of the leading designers of typefaces, specializing in type designs for magazine and newspaper publishers. History .... Holzman's revival includes a light weight called Constructa Thin and an extra bold called Constructa Black. References *Blackwell, Lewis. ''20th Century Type.'' Ya ...
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Constructa (company)
Constructa is a German brand from the company ''Constructa-Neff, Constructa-Neff Vertriebs-GmbH'', making major appliances based in Munich. The company is a part of BSH Hausgeräte. At the beginning of the 1950s, the first German household washing machine with a glazed front door (the "porthole") was developed under this name and launched on the market. Constructa was in the 1950s and 1960s the leading German provider of fully automatic washing machines. Sources *''Die Quecke Ratinger und Angerländer Heimatblätter'' 1998 page 168 ff. * Susanne Hilger: ''«Amerikanisierung» deutscher Unternehmen: Wettbewerbsstrategien und Unternehmenspolitik bei Henkel, Siemens und Daimler-Benz (1945/49–1975)''. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2004, page 138 ff. External links Official site
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