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Born in 1947, Erik Spiekermann studied history of art and English in Berlin.

Neville Brody, the British designer and art director, has now been at the forefront of graphic design for over two decades.

Jonathan Barnbrook’s fonts Exocet (1991) and Mason (1992) are regarded as benchmarks of the pre-millennial style. Barnbrook’s talents, however, extend beyond typography, his layered graphic style having given form and meaning to the artist Damien Hirst’s print monographs.

Hermann Zapf is a doyen of type design and one of the few world-respected typographers who has distinguished himself in the hot metal, film setting and digital type design environments. He is also a calligrapher, book designer and teacher, and has written many important articles about modern technical developments in the art of composition and printing.

Rick Valicenti is founder and design director of Thirst, a communication design firm devoted to art, function and real human presence. His clients include the leaders of Chicago’s design and cultural communities.

Tobias Frere-Jones was born in 1970 in New York, and after receiving his BFA in 1992 from Rhode Island School of Design, he joined Font Bureau Inc, Boston. During his seven years as senior designer, Frere-Jones created many of Font Bureau’s best known typefaces, including Interstate, and Poynter Oldstyle and Gothic.