Frederic William Goudy – born 8. 3. 1865 in Bloomington, USA, died 11. 5. 1947 in Malborough-on-Hudson, USA – type designer, typographer, publisher, teacher.
1888: book-keeper for credit and mortgage companies. 1889: moves to Chicago, works in real estate. 1892: launches "Modern Advertising" magazine which issues only a few numbers. 1895: opens a print workshop in Chicago and prints the "American Chap-Book". 1897: designs his first type, Camelot Old Style. Produces typographical designs for
[...]David Quay – born 3. 1. 1948 in London, England – graphic designer, type designer, typographer, teacher.
1963–68: studies at Ravensbourne College of Art & Design. 1968–75: works in London as a graphic designer. 1983: co-founder of Quay & Gray Lettering (with Paul Gray). 1987: launches David Quay Design in London. Clients include Monotype, H. Berthold AG and the International Typeface Corporation (ITC). 1988: founds Letter Exchange, an organization for aspects of typography and type. The c.
[...]Leslie Usherwood (1932–1983), advertising designer, typographer and type designer created the fonts Caxton™, Flange® BQ, ITC Leawood®, Lynton® BQ (1980), Marbrook® BQ (1983), and ITC Usherwood®.
Designer Erik Spiekermann created the following fonts: Berliner Grotesk® BQ (1913), Lo-Type® BQ (1914 ,this font has been adapted from the original for use in photosetting applications), ITC Officina Sans® (1990), ITC Officina Serif® (1990).
Please take a look at the personal designer portrait of Erik Spiekermann.
German designer Gudrun Zapf von Hesse created the following fonts:
Alcuin® (1991), Ariadne® (1954), Carmina® (1986), Christiana® (1991), Colombine® (1991), Diotima® (1952), Diotima® Classic (2008), Nofret® (1984) Shakespeare™ (1968), Smaragd™ (1953).
Please take a look at the personal designer portrait of Gudrun Zapf von Hesse.
Gustav Jaeger, son of a printer, studied at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach am Main. An enthusiast for type and typography from an early age, he started his career at the Bauer typefoundry, where he developed type specimens promoting the work of Konrad Bauer and Walter Baum. Encouraged by the former, he designed contemporary 1970s display types for H. Berthold AG. He progressed to text types, the first of which, Seneca® BQ, was released by Berthold in 1977. Many others followed,
[...]Designer Günter Gerhard Lange designed the following fonts: Arena New® BQ (1951–54), Berthold Script® BQ (1977), Berthold Bodoni Old Face® BQ (1983), Boulevard® BQ (1955), Berthold Calson 471® BQ (1977), Champion™ BQ (1957), Concorde® BQ (1969), Concorde Nova® BQ (1975), El Greco® BQ (1964), Franklin Antiqua® BQ (1976), Berthold Garamond® BQ (1972), Imago® BQ (1982), Solemnis™ (1953), Berthold Walbaum® Book BQ (1975), Berthold
[...]Designer Karlheinz Maireder created the font Mainorm® BQ in 1986.
Designer Kazimierz Mika created the font Mikaway® BQ in 1989.
Örjan Nordling has been involved in typedesign for over 20 years. He was trained in Graphic Design at The University College of Art Crafts and Design in Stockholm 1979–83 and at the Basle School of Design 1983–85. He designed the typeface Nordling® BQ, under G. G. Lange for H. Berthold AG, for which he received Excellent Swedish Form in 1996. In 1997 he was one of the founders of the Typographic studio Pangea design in Stockholm.
Throughout the years his work has included corporate
[...]Louis Oppenheim (born 1879 in Coburg, died 1936 in Berlin) was a Graphic design graphic artist, painter and type designer. Born in Coburg, Oppenheim studied in London from 1899 to 1906. He moved to Berlin and started his work as a graphic artist in 1910, signing his work with his initials, “LO” and working for clients such as AES, the Reichsbahn, Persil and Adrema.
Oppenheim worked for the type foundry Bertholdand created a handful of significant and wide-spread typefaces, all
[...]Designer Friedrich Poppl (born 1923 in Soborten, died 1982 in Wiesbaden) created the fonts Laudatio® BQ (1982), Nero™ BQ (1982), Poppl College® BQ One (1981), Poppl College® BQ Two (1981), Poppl Exquisit® BQ (1970), Poppl Fraktur® (1988), Poppl-Pontifex® BQ (1974), Poppl Residenz® BQ (1977).
Gillies Gothic, Helicon, Imago, Jaeger-Antiqua, Jersey, Kennerley, Laudatio, Lo-Type, Lynton, Mainorm, Marbrook, Michelangelo, Mikaway, Nero, Nofret and Nordling are trademarks of Berthold Types Limited.
