A short film about designer and instructor Wolfgang Weingart, who was awarded the AIGA Medal at “Bright Lights: The AIGA Awards Gala” in New York City in April 2013.
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A short film about type designers Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones, who were awarded the AIGA Medal at “Bright Lights: The AIGA Awards Gala” in New York City in April 2013.
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Case Study by Dave Copestakes and Gigi McGee December 10, 2012
For these workshops, graphic design students from local colleges were paired with
children ages 8 to 12. Under the guidance of AIGA Philadelphia and Spells
Writing Lab, the participating children created poems and collages that showcased “their Philadelphia.”
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Doyald Young receives the 2009 AIGA Medal, in recognition for demonstrating the power of a lifelong love of the craft of calligraphy, type and graphic design, for his contributions as an author and for his engaging role as an educator. Deanna Kuhlmann-Leavitt, designer and founding partner of Kuhlmann Leavitt, Inc., presents the award.
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October 25, 2011
Jessica Karle Heltzel looks at the how the digitization of vintage typography is giving designers the means to create authentic, nostalgic experiences with new technology. Just don’t call it retro.
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April 14, 2009
Who can resist the graphic appeal of wood type? Heller gets impressed at the Hamilton Wood Type Museum.
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Biography by J. Abbott Miller
Matthew Carter, a typographer whose work is marked by a combination of expression and restraint, was one of four cofounders of Bitstream, a digital type foundry based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Bitstream was among the first of the independent font foundries. More than a decade later, Carter and Cherie Cone (also one of the Bitstream founders) left to start a smaller company called Carter Cone Type. Here Carter produced some of his finest works: the fonts Elephant, Mantinia, Sophia, Big Caslon, Alisal and Walker. In 1995, he was honored with an AIGA Medal.
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