Monday, September 28, 2015

Three Type Designers

Christian Schwartz

Christian Schwartz is a type designer and a type consultant from New York City. He first worked at Meta Design Berlin, where he created typefaces for Volkswagen and also created many logos. In 2000, he was a full time employee with Font Bureau and a year later he left to work independently in New York. Schwartz designed the greatly used family, Neutraface. 

www.christianschwartz.com/bioshtml

Neutraface Condensed






Bruno Maag

Bruno Maag went to Basel School of Design in Switzerland where he got a degree in Typographic Design and Visual Communications. He worked for Monotype in England but then transferred to Chicago where he was responsible for their custom typeface department. During this period, he recut all of the typefaces then in use by the New Yorker magazine for use on the Macintosh computer. Bruno Maag was a designer that absolutely hated the Helvetica font. He thought that it was not only horrendous, but that it was poorly crafted and very american. 

www. identifont.com/show?3WF



InterFace Thin
Plume
Plume Bold
Royalty Anorexic
Royalty Average
Royalty Obese
Stroudley
Stroudley Bold
Viato
Viato Bold


Sumner Stone

Sumner Stone is a type designer, a type founder, and an author. In 1984-1989 he was the director of Typography for Adobe. A year later he founded Stone Type Foundry Inc., in California. The Foundry has produced a variety of prize winning typefaces and custom designs. Stone fell in love with type through calligraphy and was greatly influenced by Hermann Zapf. His biggest challenges when creating type are getting proportions correct. Most of his refinement comes from pencil drawings. Several of his typeface names are from the meaning of his last name, Stone. 

www.linotype.com/562/sumnerstone.html



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