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  • NM type Noel Pretorius and Maria Ramos
    NM type
    Typographer
    NM type is a collaborative type foundry between typeface designers Noel Pretorius and María Ramos. >
  • Kate Jessica Rees
    Kate Jessica Rees
    Typographer
    A creative mind that aims to challenge the gap of typographic design in South Africa. >
  • Design work by Jordan Metcalf.
    Jordan Metcalf
    Artist • Graphic Designer • Illustrator • Typographer
    Jordan Metcalf is an award-winning designer, illustrator and artist based in Cape Town. >
  • Margaret Calvert. Image: Dan Wilton
    Margaret Calvert
    Typographer
    Margaret Calvert is a graphic designer known for her design of road signs in the United Kingdom, as well as the typefaces Calvert and Transport. >
  • Matthew Carter
    Typographer
    Matthew Carter is a type designer with some 50 years' experience, having designed some of the world's most recognised fonts. >
  • Oded Ezer
    Graphic Designer • Typographer
    “My name is Oded Ezer and I am a typoholic”, is how typographer, type designer, artist and teacher Oded Ezer introduces himself. >
  • Erik Spiekermann
    Writer • Typographer • Information Designer
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  • Aurobind Patel
    Typographer
    Multi-talented typographer Aurobind Patel left Harvard MBA to go into graphics, creating the ever game-changing Times Millennium typeface in November 1991. >
  • Hermann Zapf
    Hermann Zapf
    Typographer
    Hermann Zapf is a German typeface designer, book designer, teacher and calligrapher based in Darmstadt, Germany. >
  • Neville Brody
    Typographer
    Neville Brody is a renowned designer, typographer, art director and brand strategist. He is also an educator and a passionate voice in the design community. >
  • Jonathan Barnbrook
    Graphic Designer • Typographer
    Jonathan Barnbrook is a graphic designer and typographer. >
  • David Carson
    David Carson
    Art Director • Graphic Designer • Typographer
    David Carson is the most Googled graphic designer in history and has been named the art director of the era by Creative Review, London. >
  • Tobias Frere-Jones
    Typographer
    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 >
  • Rick Valicenti
    Graphic Designer • Typographer
    Rick Valicenti is founder and design director of Thirst, a communication design firm devoted to art, function and real human presence. >
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