When Chuck Bigelow was honored with RIT’s Frederic W. Goudy Award in 1987, Steve Matteson ’88 (printing) was there, with backstage access that sparked his ambitions. As a then-student, Matteson ...

Distinguished type designer and calligrapher Robert Slimbach is the 2018 recipient of the Frederic W. Goudy Award, given to outstanding practitioners in type design and its related fields. Presented ...

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The Hermann Zapf UN Charter Preamble installed at the Morgan Library (photo by the author for Hyperallergic) (click to enlarge) The UN Charter Preamble is tucked into ...

The Jaguar E-Type is a car that's almost universally acclaimed as beautiful. Even Enzo Ferrari is thought to have quipped about the E-Type's unrivaled beauty at one point. This means that for a ...

It used to be that when Matthew Carter told people that he was a type designer, they stared back at him slack-jawed and said they thought all type designers had died. Today, though, strangers in this ...