Victor Hammer – born 9. 12. 1882 in Vienna, Austria, died 10. 7. 1967 in Lexington, USA – printer, painter, graphic artist, architect, type designer, sculptor, teacher, publisher.
1897: apprenticeship with an architect and town planner. 1898: studies at the art academy in Vienna. 1922: moves to Florence. Opens and runs a printing workshop in Florence. 1923: makes the acquaintance of Rudolf Koch. 1929: he and his printing works move into the Villa Santuccio in Florence and the business is
[...]Richard Isbell, a contemporary graphic designer and type designer of Detroit, Michigan, created the fonts Americana® (1965) and ITC Isbell® (1981, with Jerry Cambell). He designed Americana in honor of the then upcoming U.S. Bicentennial. The most distinguishing feature about Americana is its extremely large x-height. The letter proportions are very wide, with short ascenders and descenders. Americana works well for short texts, such as headlines or ad copy.
ITC Isbell, is a highly
[...]American designer Stanley Davis created the font Amelia™ in 1965. What sets Linotype Amelia apart from all the rest are its unusual inner spaces. Their teardrop forms lead the readers eye through the line of text. These teardrop shapes can also be seen in the contours of the characters themselves, making the letters look rounded and flexible. Amelia speaks the language of the digital age. The flowing strokes and round forms give it an uncomplicated and lively look.
The designer Arthur Baker created the following fonts: Amigo™, Baker Signet™, Kigali™, Marigold™, Oxford™, Pelican™, Sassafras™, Visigoth™.
John Benson – born 1939 in Newport, Rhode Island, USA – lettering artist, stonecarver.
John Benson has designed and carved headstones, civic and memorial tablets, and architectural lettering since he graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design as a sculpture major. In 1964, he was commissioned to design and carve the inscriptions for the Kennedy Memorial at Arlington Cemetery. John Benson created inscriptions for famous buildings such as the Prudential Center in Boston, the National
[...]David Farey (born 1943) created the fonts ITC Beesknees™ (1991), Bodoni™ Unique, Cachet™, Font, Gabardine, Greyhound™, ITC Highlander® (1993), ITC Johnston™ (with Richard Dawson, 1999), Little Louis, ITC Ozwald® (1992), Virgin Roman, Zemestro™ (2003), Tanseek Modern™ (with Arlette Boutros, Mourad Boutros, Richard Dawson, 2008), Tanseek Traditional™ (with Arlette Boutros, Mourad Boutros, Richard Dawson, 2008), Azbuka™ (with Richard Dawson, 2008).
Karl-Erik Forsberg – born 1914 in Munsö, Sweden, died 1995 – type designer, typographer. Trained at the School for Book Crafts in Sweden.
1938–41: studies at the Akademie für Graphische Künste und Buchgewerbe in Leipzig. 1942–49: designer for the publishers Almqvist & Wiksell, the University of Uppsala press. From 1950 onwards: designer for the publishers P. A. Norstedt & Söner. Besides book designs, Forsberg has designed stamps and produced magazines and stamps. 1954: a bible is published
[...]The French designer Thierry Pulfoulhoux (born 1961) created the font ITC Korigan™ in 1997. ITC Korigan is uncial typeface which he wanted to offer as an alternative to Victor Hammer's American Unicial™, which remains for him "the uncial character of reference." The roundness of an uncial gives it the look of pearls on a string, as Hammer said, and ITC Korigan is true to its heritage in this respect. Despite the roundness, however, the forms remain familiar and legible to the modern eye.
Using digital technology, Philip Bouwsma synthesizes contemporary type styles with traditional and historic scripts and symbols from the Middle Ages and Renaissance. A lifelong calligrapher, Bouwsma also expresses his passion for the calligraphic form into his work. He attended the University of California at Berkeley, majoring in history and Greek. His love of letters, however, lured him away from arcane history to a career filled with art, design and the alphabet. Over the years, Bouwsma has
[...]Founded by Cynthia Hollandsworth Batty in the mid-1980s with the goal of creating new typefaces. There was some collaboration with the calligrapher Arthur Baker.
Steve Mehallo is an art director who lives in Mountain View, California. His clients have included large corporations, magazines, newspapers, legal and public planning firms, as well as art groups.
Mehallo enjoys mixing retro design with post modern elements, allowing good typefaces to breathe properly, and doing things with photography that confuse his parents. Lately he has also experimented with cartoon illustration.
In 1991 as an experiment, Adam Roe decided to found Lunchbox Studios. Since then, Adam has become president and founder of his second company, Reelhouse Footage and FK in Los Angeles, California.
www.lbox.com
Rotis font family
This font family consists of all versions of Rotis®, named by Otl Aicher after the village in the Allgäu where he has lived since 1972. Aicher’s goal was to design a family of fonts which could serve almost any typographical purpose. Rotis® gives an impression of both strength and generosity and all four versions can be used interchangeably with one another. Rotis® is suitable for book/text, documentation/business reports, business correspondence, magazines, newspapers,
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Font Designer: Otl Aicher, 1988
Otl Aicher named his typeface Rotis® after the small village in southern Germany where he has lived since 1972. The goal was to create an aesthetic type family which could fulfil a variety of typographic requirements. The result: a remarkable sans serif and a reserved antiqua with a total of 17 weights which combine extremely well with one another.
This unification of two classic forms was almost revolutionary in 1988. Over centuries, designers had
[...]Berling™ Nova Sans joins the enterprising Berling Nova superfamily
Initial concepts for comprehensive type systems surfaced as early as the 1930s, yet they remained the exception. In the days of hot-metal typesetting, handbooks generally recommended creating typeface mixtures from a single type family, a family being understood as including all of a typeface’s weights, such as light, normal, semi-bold, and bold, and including all of the italic weights as well. A well-rounded type family also includes small caps, tabular and old-style figures. These days, the
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Amelia is a trademark of Linotype GmbH and may be registered in certain jurisdictions.
Alexa and Andreas are trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated which may be registered in certain jurisdictions.
Amigo and Hiroshige are trademarks of Alpha Omega Typography.
Americana is a registered trademark of Kingsley/ATF.
CG Alpin, Mariposa, Tresillian and Uncial are trademarks of Monotype Imaging Inc. and may be registered in certain jurisdictions.
Rotis is a trademark of Monotype Imaging Inc. registered in the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office and may be registered in certain jurisdictions.
Berling is a trademark of Verbum AB.
