Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Fuse Designers



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.




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