Gerard Unger was born January 22, 1942. He is a Dutch
graphic type designer under fuse. He has developed many type faces as well as
designs for magazines, coins, books, logos and stamps. He has designed type for
the signage systems of Dutch highways and the Amsterdam metro. He has also
taught at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy for over 30 years and has been a visiting
professor at the University of Reading at the Department of type and graphics
since 1994.
Barry Deck earned his MFA degree from California Institute
of Art in 1989. His work still appears in numerous books and magazines. His
most recognizable font is Template Gothic. He was one of the first designers to
use computer tools for font desings. He held a large influence on graphic
designers moving into desktop publishing. He soon learned that design without a
plan means letting others drive your design interests. Deck set up his own
company “Dysmedia” in New York and expanded his firm to a resourceful design
consultant firm.
Paul Elliman is a designer based in London. His work
combines typography and the human voice
referring to forms of audio signage. His work has addressed the
instrumentalisation of the human voice as a kind of typography, as well as
imitating other languages and city sounds including non verbal messages. His
work has been shown at the Institute of Contemporary Arts as well as Tate
Modern.
Rick Vermeulen was born in Schiedam in 1950. He studied
garphics at the Rotterdam Academy, graduating in 1972. He worked regularly for
the publisher Bert Bakker and was a participant in Rotterdam’s Graphic Workshop
where he produced material for cultural organizations. By 1993 he was an
established teacher at Cranbrook CalArts and North Carolina State University.
In recent years, Vermeulen has designed two typefaces for Fuse and collaborates
with Inizio and workds on freelance projects for publishing and other clients.
Tobias Frere-Jones is an American type designer who works in
New York City. He currently teaches type at Yale School of Art MFA program. He
joined Font Bureau, Inc. in Boston and created a number of typefaces and has
been a senior designer for the past 7 years. He has designed several hundred
typefaces for retail publication, custom clients and experimental purposes. His
work has been featured in HOW, ID, Page, Print, Eye, and Graphics Inc.
Neville Brody is an English Graphic Designer, typographer
and art director. He is an alumnus of the London College of Printing and
Hornsey college of Art. He is known for his work in the Face magazine and Arena
magazine. 1977 his work and motivation was based mostly on punk rock. While in
1980-1993 he pushed the boundaries on visual communication in all media through
his experiemental and challenging work with the visual language. Since 1994 he
still continues to work as a graphic designer in London research studios.
