Font Designer - Richard Yeend

Born: London, 5 April 1945

Education: Kings College, Taunton, and Cambridge School of Art.
Art director, caricaturist and type designer.

ART DIRECTOR
The Wall Street Journal Europe
1999 –

Die Welt
1998–1999
Redesigned the newspaper; Drew daily editorial cartoons.
Drew logotype for Berliner Morgenpost

International Herald Tribune
1987–1998
Redesigned the newspaper. Drew editorial cartoons.

The New York Times
1978–1987
Designed the Financial sections and business magazines, and drew sports caricatures.
Won a SND gold award in 1982.

The Boston Herald American
1975–1978
Redesigned the daily and Sunday papers and the color magazines.
Drew political cartoons for the op-ed pages.

EDITORIAL CARTOONIST
1969–1974
The Guardian (Monday - Friday)
The Sunday Times

Contributed caricature to Newsweek, Fortune, Rolling Stone, New York Magazine, Le Monde, Berliner Morgenpost.
In 1970 designed a neon sign for Lloyds Bank in Picadilly Circus, London.

Designed typefaces:
Achispado™, Amherst Gothic Split™, Bandalero™, Linotype Buckingham Fraktur™,Burgstaedt Antiqua™, Hawkhurst™, Italienne™, Neuseidler™, Anasdair™, Linotype Richmond™ for Linotype Library.

Richmond Fraktur, Richmond Zierschrift and Buckingham Fraktur are integrated in the TakeType No. 4.
Anasdair, Achispado, Amherst, Bandalero, Burgstädt Antiqua, Hawkhurst, Italienne and Neuseidler are part of the new Take Type No. 5 which contains 204 exclusive, contemporary fonts for electronic publishing.

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