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[10] [14] By 1980, Langdon claims both he and Stanford graduate student Scott Kim invented ambigrams, albeit separately. Kim called his creations inversions; in 1984, Douglas Hofstadter coined the term ambigram. [16] [12] The first ambigram Langdon sold was of the word STARSHIP to Jefferson Starship for their 1976 album Spitfire.
Kris Holmes (born 1950, Reedley, California) is an American typeface designer, calligrapher, type design educator and animator.She, with Charles Bigelow, is the co-creator of the Lucida and Wingdings font families, among many other typeface designs.
Florence Lawrence (born Florence Annie Bridgwood; January 2, 1886 – December 28, 1938) was a Canadian-American stage performer and film actress.She is often referred to as the "first movie star", and was long thought to be the first film actor to be named publicly [1] until evidence published in 2019 indicated that the first named film star was French actor Max Linder. [2]
A revolving type case for wooden type in China, an illustration shown in a book published in 1313 by Wang Zhen Korean movable type from 1377 used for the Jikji. Although typically applied to printed, published, broadcast, and reproduced materials in contemporary times, all words, letters, symbols, and numbers written alongside the earliest naturalistic drawings by humans may be called typography.
Claude Garamond. Claude Garamont (c. 1510 –1561), [1] known commonly as Claude Garamond, was a French type designer, publisher and punch-cutter based in Paris. [2] [3] Garamond worked as an engraver of punches, the masters used to stamp matrices, the moulds used to cast metal type.
Max Miedinger (24 December 1910 – 8 March 1980) was a Swiss typeface designer, [1] best known for creating the Neue Haas Grotesk typeface in 1957, renamed Helvetica in 1960. Marketed as a symbol of cutting-edge Swiss technology, Helvetica achieved immediate global success.
A movie star (also known as a film star or cinema star) is an actor who is famous for their starring, or leading, roles in movies. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The term is used for performers who are marketable stars as they become popular household names and whose names are used to promote movies, for example in trailers and posters. [ 3 ]
Johnston was born in San José de Mayo, Uruguay. [3] [4] His father, Fowell Buxton Johnston (born 1839), was an officer in the 3rd Dragoon Guards, and the younger son of Scottish MP Andrew Johnston [5] and his second wife, abolitionist Priscilla Buxton, [6] daughter of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet.