This month marks the second anniversary of our acclaimed series of interviews. Thank you all for your compliments and encouragements! We celebrate the event with a lengthy interview conducted in French (don't worry — we did translate it)…
Khajag Apelian is a Lebanese graphic and type designer of Armenian descent. Raised between Dubai and Beirut, Khajag received a Bachelor’s degree in Typography and Motion Graphics from Notre Dame University in Lebanon and an M.Des. in Type and Media from KABK in The Hague.
This month marks the second anniversary of our acclaimed series of interviews. Thank you all for your compliments and encouragements! We celebrate the event with a lengthy interview conducted in French (don't worry — we did translate it)…
Type design has always been an exacting, highly skilled profession, but that was doubly true in the early days of digital fonts. These faces had to work in highly demanding, challenging environments: CRT monitors, low resolution printers, and in a rapidly evolving newspaper industry. This month we are talking to one of those individuals who tackled the limitations of technology head on. His pioneering techniques, first developed under Wim Crouwel, were later employed by Bitstream and URW, and utilized on road signs and in newsprint, establishing a body of work admired the world over, both for its pragmatic, steely clarity, and its warmth and openness. He has now teamed up with TypeTogether, a foundry run by two of his former students at Reading. It is an honor to welcome Dutch designer Gerard Unger, one of the most original minds in contemporary type design.
Each Rising Stars newsletter is different, but this month’s issue is more different than usual. We feature work from two designers that are new to MyFonts, as well as versatile families from two of our most productive foundries. We are introducing the first new typeface in decades from the living legend that is Mike Parker. And the biggest news is an extra-special collaborative font uniting hundreds of designers: Coming Together, a Font Aid project for Haiti.
As soon as we published our first Creative Characters interview last summer, requests began pouring in to interview the man behind Nick’s Fonts, one of our most successful foundries. “Please interview the prolific Nick Curtis!” wrote our customer Sandra. “He really seems to have his finger on the pulse of popular culture. I’m a fan, can you tell?” She is not the only one: Nick Curtis has many admirers, and it’s easy to see why. His fonts are among the tastiest, freshest and sassiest MyFonts has to offer. Plus, there’s an awful lot of them, and their variety is baffling. How does he do it?
The third quarter of 2008 brings possibly the most varied – and largest – number of new additions we have seen in quite some time. From delicate calligraphic scripts to mannered and complete families of sans-serif text faces, MyFonts continues to bring you the most (and most unique!) type in the world.
He is one of those rather modest designers who let their work speak for itself. He is not on every student’s list of “great names in type design.” Yet he has been in the business of making letters – be it with a brush, a pen, or a computer mouse – for decades, and has worked for some of the most innovative type companies, including Bitstream and Adobe. Now he is a staff designer at Boston’s Font Bureau, and as productive as ever. Meet Richard Lipton, a master of many scripts.
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