A select group of magazine editors, designers, and other denizens of publishings late hours will remember Fred Woodward this way: sitting in his darkened office, staring silently at the raw materials of his tradean image, a headlineand waiting. Andie Zellman, an editor who worked with him in the early 1980s atWestwardmagazine, described the state as…

Countless people are probably asking themselves the following question: “Who the heck is Frank Zachary?” If ever there was an unsung hero who totally epitomizes the specialized craft of magazine editing and art direction, or as he puts it, “graphic journalism,” Frank Zachary is that hero. He is living proof of the old geometry theorem,…

One of the founders of the club, he originated the term “type director” to give the role a more professional standing; he was in 1946 the TDC’s first President, followed by two additional presidencies in 1961 and 1962; and served as tireless chairman of many TDC committees. Director of Typography for J. Walter Thompson for…

With her background in languages and her PhD in Indian Palaeography (SOAS), Fiona Ross began working at Linotype in the United Kingdom in 1978. She became Linotype’s first female manager when she assumed leadership of the non-Latin typographic department with responsibility for the design of their non-Latin fonts and typesetting schemes. Under her leadership, Linotype…

As the founder and creative director of Baron & Baron, Fabien Baron has crafted identities for the fashion, cosmetic and fragrance worlds most visible and influential brands. Barons singular vision is evident in a broad range of award-winning advertising campaigns, package designs, logos and graphics. Baron has also applied his talents to the design of…

The genius of Erik Nitsche encompasses virtually the entire sphere of visual communications. I would put him on the top-ten list of the best 20th-century designers in the world, said Michael Aron, graphic artist and professor at the Parsons School of Design. Nitsche’s prodigious and globe-straddling career, spanning nearly 60 years, included art direction, book…

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…