Erik Spiekermann is information architect, type designer and author of books and articles on type and typography. Two of his typefaces, FF Meta and ITC Officina, are considered to be modern classics. In 1979 he founded MetaDesign and in 1989 FontShop. He is behind the design of well-know brands such as Audi, Bosch, VW, German…

With this award, the Type Directors Club honored Emigre’s typeface designs and publishing projects, which have influenced the graphic design profession since Emigre magazine was first published in 1984. Although the magazine ended in 2005, Emigre Fonts, the digital foundry that was started to create type for the magazine and explore type design on the…

Eiko Ishioka is part of a rare breed of revolutionariesa woman whose wide-ranging multimedia accomplishments in the late 1960s and 1970s jolted the Japanese cultural establishment. Recognized as Japan’s premiere art director and graphic designer, her more recent activities in production and costume design for film, theater, and opera have brought her continued acclaim. Through…

Edward Tufte has written, designed, and self-published four books on analytical design:The Visual Display of Quantitative Information(1983, 2001),Envisioning Information(1990),Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative(1997), andBeautiful Evidence(2005). One million copies are in print. He is currently writing a book, constructing large-scale landscape sculptures, and consulting for NASA.   He teaches a one-day course in…

If you think Mona Lisa’s smile is enigmatic, take a good look at this photograph of Edward Sorel. Is that expression a grin or a grimace? As it happens, it’s both. Together, the smile and the sigh, the wit and the mordancy make him one of the supreme caricaturists of our time. He leaves the…

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Edward Benguiat got acquainted with design and showcard lettering when he was nine years old. His father was display director at Bloomingdale’s and he had all the drawing tools a little boy could want. Edward would play with his father’s pens, brushes, and drafting sets, and learned about sign painting,…

Still in his mid-30s, Edward McCabe has been a copywriter for 18 years. Brought up in Evanston, Illinois, he began his career in Chicago, moving to New York in 1959. While with Benton & Bowles, The Marschalk Company, and Carl Ally, he began to develop a reputation for writing advertising that people remember. By 1967,…

Dr. Edward Rondthaler (June 9, 1905 – August 19, 2009) was a typographer as well as a simplified spelling champion and chairman of the American Literacy Council. He was critical to the development of SoundSpel. He was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. A longtime resident of Croton-on-Hudson, New York, Rondthaler became a centenarian in 2005. Rondthaler…

Ed Benguiat (born Ephram Edward Benguiat, October 27, 1927) is an American typographer. He has crafted over 600 typefaces including Tiffany, Bookman, Panache, Edwardian Script, and the self-titled typefaces Benguiat and Benguiat Gothic. He also designed logotypes for The New York Times, Playboy, Sports Illustrated, the original Planet of the Apes film, Super Fly and…

In 1915, E. McKnight Kauffer, an impeccable, young American illustrator just arrived in London, was commissioned for his first poster for the city’s Underground Railway, which was starting an adventurous corporate campaign, treating stations like shops and advertising the delights found en route, with the work of fine artists and painters and ‘new’ typography. Kauffer’s…