Zuzana Licko

Zuzana Licko is the co-founder of Émigré, together with her husband Rudy VanderLans.
Licko was born in 1961 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia and emigrated to the U.S. in 1968. She graduated with a degree in Graphic Communications from the university of California at Berkeley in 1984.
Émigré magazine was founded in 1984 and garnered much critical acclaim when it began to incorporate Licko’s digital typeface designs created with the first generation of the Macintosh computer. This exposure of her typefaces in Émigré now distributes as software, worldwide.

Eye Magazine ( UK) Published in 2002.
Interviewed by Rhonda Rubinstein.
As one of the first type designers to exploit the potential of the Apple Macintosh in it’s pre- designer days, Zuzana Licko transformed the pixel from low- resolution imitation to high-style original.
Her early Émigré fonts not only revolutionized digital typography but also opened up the market for the smaller foundries whose quarter-page ads populate today’s design magazines. She has designed more than two dozen typeface families and overseas the Émigré foundry, which currently offers 300 or so typefaces by the likes of Barry Deck, Jonathan Barnbrook, Frank Heine and Rodrigo Cavazos.

90's TIMELINE, Brianna

QWASIAN - Rap album cover, club posters, flyers and advertising.



Shepard Fairey - OBEY, posters, graffiti, street art and clothing 1990-1999




David Carson, Nine Inch Nails album covers.



Robert Greene, on his career in fashion and beauty. We were all into fashion and fashion photography, I was fascinated by the 90s models. I ended up moving to New York in 1997 from Miami to Attend the Fashion Institute of Technology. I graduated with a BFA in Graphic Design and Advertising. The magazine I worked for at the time folded, and this, believe it or not, lead to my career as a makeup artist.



KULTE THE FRENCH BRAND, Adam Love. After moving to Paris in the ’90s, Adam Love worked as a freelance art director, graphic designer, stylist and consultant. Here’s the result of some of his great designs produced on a series of tshirt, by the French Brand Kulte.



BANKSY 1990-1999
His earlier work in Bristol was freehand graffiti. With political statements throughout his work.
This piece of graffiti art work was done in the early 90's

1920-29 Chloe

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luke post 11: Zuzana Licko

Zuzana Licko, born 1951 is a typeface designer from Bratislava. She studied architecture, photography and computer programming before taking a degree in graphic communications at the University of California at Berkeley Zuzana Licko is the co-founder of Emigre, together with her husband Rudy VanderLans. Emigre Magazine was founded in 1984 and garnered much critical acclaim when it began to incorporate Licko's digital typeface designs created with the first generation of the Macintosh computer. This exposure of her typefaces in Emigre magazine led to the manufacture of Emigre Fonts, which Emigre now distributes as software, worldwide. Emigre's development reflected the evolution of digital technology while questioning conventional ideas of legibility and layout. Licko's highly structured typefaces counterbalanced VanderLans' organic compositions. The "Emigre aesthetic" lay at the heart of a once-controversial battle on the American design scene, pitting them against Modernists such as Massimo Vignelli, who referred to the new typography as "garbage." The debate did little to slow the popularisation of the Emigre fonts, which by the late 1980s had moved beyond alternative pop cult status into the mainstream (The New York Times, ABC and Nike). The graphic design establishment has since recognised Licko and VanderLans with a 1994 Chrysler Award, the 1997 AIGA gold medal and the 1998 Charles Nypels Award for Innovation in Typography.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuzana_Licko
http://www.emigre.com/Bios.php?d=10
http://www.emigre.com/Licko.php
http://www.identifont.com/show?1I2

luke post 10: Rick Griffin/Mathew Carter

Richard Alden Griffin was an American artist and one of the leading designers of psychedelic posters in the 1960s. He was also a contributor to the underground comix. Griffin was closely identified with the Grateful Dead, having designed some of their best known posters and record jackets. He was also known for his work within the surfing subculture, including his comic strip about a surfer named "Murphy". After attending high school, he worked on the staff of Surfer magazine where he created his surfing comic strip. In Los Angeles, Griffin met a group of artists and musicians known as the Jook Savages and participated in the Watts Acid Test held by Ken Kesey. After seeing the psychedelic rock posters that were being designed by Stanley Mouse and Alton Kelly, Griffin and the Jook Savages decided to move to San Francisco in the fall of 1966, where he designed posters in the living room of his home on Elsie Street in the Bernal Heights district. Eventually, a poster distribution agency by the name of Berkeley Bonaparte hired Griffin, where he teamed up with the leading poster artists of the 1960s. He published The Illustrated Book of St. John, a retelling of the Gospel of John with his unique illustrations. In 1991, Griffin was killed in a motorcycle accident in Petaluma, California.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Griffin
http://www.myraltis.co.uk/rickgriffin/galleries1.htm
http://rickgriffinink.com/
http://lambiek.net/artists/g/griffin.htm









Matthew Carter was born in London, England in 1937. He is a type designer. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Carter's career in type design has witnessed the transition from physical metal type to digital type. At the age of 19, Carter spent a year studying in The Netherlands. By 1961 Carter was able to use the skills he acquired to cut his own version of the semi-bold typeface Dante. Carter eventually returned to London where he became a freelancer as well as the typographic advisor to Crosfield Electronics, distributors of Photon phototypesetting machines.. Matthew Carter focuses on improving many typefaces' readability. He designs specifically for Apple and Microsoft computers. Georgia and Verdana are two fonts that have been created primarily for viewing on computer monitors. Carter has designed type for magazines such as Time, The Washington Post, The New York Times, the Boston Globe, Wired, and Newsweek. He is a member of Alliance Graphique Internationale. Carter has won numerous awards for his significant contributions to typography and design, including an honoris causa Doctorate of Humane Letters from the Art Institute of Boston, an AIGA medal in 1995, and the 2005 SOTA Typography Award. A retrospective of his work, "Typographically Speaking, The Art of Matthew Carter," was exhibited at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in December 2002. In 2007, Carter designed a new variant of the typeface Georgia for use in the graphical user interface of the Bloomberg Terminal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Carter
http://www.designmuseum.org/design/matthew-carter
http://www.graphic-design.com/Type/carter/
http://www.fontbureau.com/people/MatthewCarter

luke post 9: wolfgang weingart

Weingart was born in 1941 in the Salem Valley, where spent his childhood. In 1954 he moved to Lisbon with his family and developed an interest in the local museums and for the arts.
In April 1958 he began his studies at the Merz Academy where he attended a two year program in applied graphic arts.
Between 1960 and 1963 he completed his training as typesetter in a small printing shop in Stuttgart, where he worked primarily doing hand composing. It was here that he first became familiar with Swiss typography.
In 1963 he presented his work to Emil Rudder and Armin Hofmann, founders of the Basel School of Applied Arts and established Swiss-style typographers.
Weingart moved to Basel in 1964, sat in at irregular intervals in the Basel School, and only began to study typography four years later, under the instruction of Ruder and Hofmann. He retired in 2004.
He was instructor at the Yale Summer Program in Graphic Design in Switzerland from 1974 until 1996.
His work has been awarded a mark of excellence by the Swiss Federal Minister of the Interior in Berne. In May 2005 he was awarded the honorary title of Doctor Of Fine Arts. He was a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale from 1978 to 1999, and was on the editorial board of the Swiss typographic magazine Typographische Monatsblätter from 1970 to 1988.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Weingart
http://www.geocities.com/dyingsadist/biographyplain.html