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At 26 he went to work as a typographer in the advertising department of Globus, a renowned chain of department stores. [3] After ten years at Globus, Miedinger gained employment with Haas Type Foundry as a representative. In 1954, he created his first typeface design for Haas, Pro Arte, a condensed slab serif.
[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.
Life is a 2015 biographical drama film directed by Anton Corbijn and written by Luke Davies. It is based on the friendship of Life photographer Dennis Stock and American actor James Dean , starring Robert Pattinson as Stock and Dane DeHaan as Dean.
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.
Ephram Edward Benguiat (/ ˈ b ɛ n ɡ æ t /; October 27, 1927 – October 15, 2020) was an American type designer and lettering artist. He designed over 600 typefaces, including Tiffany, Bookman, Panache, Souvenir, Edwardian Script, and the eponymous Benguiat and Benguiat Gothic.
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.
The film was the first of a two-movie deal between Murphy and Imagine Entertainment, the second being Bowfinger. [9] [10] Although Life is set in Parchman, Mississippi, it was filmed in California. [11] Filming locations in the Los Angeles area included Downey [12] and Norwalk, [13] in addition to the Universal Pictures backlot. [9]
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.