He closely cooperated with Linotype-Hell AG, after having been artistic director at Deberny-Peignot in Paris since 1952. įamous type designer born in 1928 in Unterseen, Switzerland, who died in September 2015.
Dubbeldik was digitally revived in 2020 by Claudio Rocha ( Now Type) as Werner. In 1972, he published the inline art deco typeface Dubbeldik at Mecanorma as a transfer sheet typeface. His paperclip typeface from 1974 inspired Afrojet to create the FontStruction Paperclip (2010), and Wilson Thomas followed that up with Werner Paperclip (2010). ĭutch type designer from the phototype era. Tony Mayers has died.Īscender also sells its collection. The latest address for ABC Types was in Cedars, PA. The typefaces are now digitally available from Cedars, PA-based International Type Founders (ITF), which was created by Steve Jackaman. Before ABC Types, he ran Absolutetype, where he sold the typefaces mentioned above. He created Concept Crisis (grunge face), Concept Sans, De-Generation, Generation Gothic, Generation Graffiti, Generation Headline, Generation Lost, Generation Open, Generation Pixel, Generation Uncial, Monolith Roman (2004), Monolith Sans, Poster Gothic, Ran ger, Society, and Text Gothic. In 1979, he moved to Manchester, where he founded The Quick Brown Fox Company. He learned the craft of phototypesetting. Tony produced film titles in London's West End. VGC and its backers proceeded to convert metal typefaces to film, and pursued licensing with typefounders. It speeded fashionably tight letter and word spacing, achievable in metal only with a razor blade after proofing, and had none of the size limitations of foundry type.
The Typositor, as it became known, ingeniously used the same 2-inch film font format as the Filmotype. It also offered many of Photo-Letterings capabilities at a reduced price. The Photo Typositor allowed an operator to see composition letter-by-letter as it was exposed, unlike the Rutherford. Initially the endeavor split its headquarters between the existing typographers address in midtown Manhattan and sunny South Florida. Peter Bain writes: The owners of Rapid Typographers were impressed enough by Friedels invention to organize the new Visual Graphics Corporation. Rapid Typographers organized the Visual Graphics Corporation (or VGC) to make the best use of this new technology. There he helped promote the Typositor, or Photo Typositor (invented in Miami by Murray Friedel in 1959), which improved over the first photo type machine, the Rutherford. He set up a type division at Rapid Typographers. From 1955 to 1960 he taught Advanced and Experimental Typographic Design at Pratt Institute, New York. He is the author of "Typography," published in 1961 by Reinhold Publishers, Inc. In 1959 he founded the International Center for the Typographic Arts (ICTA), and was a founding member of the International Center for the Communication Arts and Sciences (ICCAS). In 1970, Aaron Burns, Herb Lubalin and Edward Rondthaler (from Photo-Lettering Inc.) founded the International Typeface Corporation (ITC), and Aaron Burns became its President. Īaron Burns, designer/typographer, was President of Lubalin, Burns & Co., Inc., New York City. Arpad was modernized and extended by Jonathan Hill in 2010 as Brion. Ĭreator of typefaces at VGC, such as the rounded sans typeface Arpad (1971). Corvina Black was revived and modified by Patrick Griffin in 2005 as Gaslon ( Canada Type). Aase exists in digital form at Image Club Graphics (1992). TYPE DESIGN INFORMATION PAGE last updated onĪmerican creator of typefaces at VGC, such as Aase (1977, art deco), Round Black (1977), DoublePipe (1975), and Corvina Black (1973).