He is a man of many talents: graphic designer, type designer, calligrapher, teacher and owner of a design studio in Georgia. We are told that he also makes great sushi. Having published his first fonts at T-26 less than ten years ago, he has rapidly become a force to be reckoned with on the North American type scene. His microfoundry Positype has published a respectable collection of text and display faces, and with TypeTrust he is into distribution as well. The latest news is that his Fugu typeface has won a “Certificate of Excellence in Type Design” in this year’s TDC2 Awards. Congratulations! Meet Neil Summerour, before he’s off to Japan again.
Adobe Systems, based in San Jose, California, was started by John Warnock and Chuck Geschke in 1982. In 1999 it became a billion dollar company. Adobe has long offered many applications for handling images and text, as well as a fine type library.
This month’s interviewee was an international free-font hero while still in his teens, before attending design college, dropping out, and becoming a well-known graphic designer and illustrator. Having made stunning illustrations and typographic posters for clients in the cultural and editorial sectors, he eventually specialized in energetic script and display fonts. His foundry Fenotype has been at MyFonts for a mere three years, but it feels as if it’s been longer. His fonts were featured in our Fonts-of-the-Year lists of 2011 and 2012, making him the most successful type designer from the Nordic countries currently on MyFonts. Meet Emil Bertell, our man in Turku, Finland.
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