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Adobe Systems

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Came out with post script and eventually got page layout software after Aldus Pagemaker.

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Aldus Pagemaker

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Page layout software

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Apple Computer

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1984 Macintosh, represented form in bitmap.

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April Greiman

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Used bitmap computer output to create her design solutions.

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Barbara Kuhr

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Lived in Park City, co founder (with John Plunkett) of WIRED. Flew to San Fran to produce the magazine. HotWired- first commercial site. Fluorescent ink.

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David Carson

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Surfer, informally trained. Raygun magazine, challenged legibility.

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Edward Fella

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hand-drawn typography, worked with the McCoys. Roots in vernacular design, and early modernist typography.

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Emigre

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Rudy Vanderlans & Zuzana Licko, Kept using bitmap type after post script was invented. Revived Bodoni (Filosophia), Baskerville (Ms. Eaves).

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Erik Speikermann

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Meta typeface (popular in the 90’s), Axel typeface, Berlin native. Successful font foundry. A

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Fred Woodward

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Rollings stone and wired art director. Vernacular design. Never wanted to use the same typeface more than once.

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Hatch ShowPrint

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Oldest continuously running letterpress printer. Nashville, TN. 1879.

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Imaginary Forces

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Launched by Kyle Cooper, film title design firm.Ca

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John Plunkett

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Lived in Park City, co founder (with Barbara Kuhr) of WIRED. Flew to San Fran to produce the magazine. HotWired- first commercial site. Fluorescent ink.

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Jonathan Hoefler

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Currently being sued by former business partner, typography.com. typeface design for all major magazines, typeface foundry Hoefler & Frere-Jones

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Kit Hinrichs

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San Fran Pentagram. Published Journal and business of design @issues.

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Katherine McCoy / Michael McCoy

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Husband/wife team, she was a graphic designer, he was a product designer. Co-chairs at the Cranbrook academy of art for 25 years. Cranbrook recruiting poster.

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Kyle Cooper

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Imaginary Forces. Movie titles: Seven, Spiderman 2, Madmen.

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Michael Beirut

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Pentagram partner, worked under Massimo Vignelli. ITS.

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Paula Sher

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Pentagram partner, environmental graphics, vernacular design.

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PostScript

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Adobe’s program, smoothed out bitmap

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Rudy VanderLans

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Emigre co-founder with Zuzana Licko. Did Bitmap graphics.

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Tobias Frere-Jones

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RISD graduate, lawsuit with former partner, typographer, typeface foundry Hoefler & Frere-Jones. Teaches at Yale.

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Zuzana Licko

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Cofounder of Emigre with Vanderlans.

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