Matthew Carter
Matthew Carter (born October 1, 1937 in London ) is a British type designer .
Life
Matthew Carter is the son of the letter historian and typographer Harry Carter, who worked full-time at Oxford University Press with the history of printing . After admission to study at Oxford University in 1955, he used the remaining time until the start of his studies for an internship at the type foundry and printing company Johannes Enschedé en Zonen in Haarlem , the Netherlands . Here he also learned stamp cutting, i.e. the manual creation of metal dies for the creation of type casting molds. During this time he also studied historical scripts from the 16th century. In 1956, Matthew Carter decided not to study but to help his father build a museum through Oxford University Press. He also worked as a freelance book and font designer.
In 1963 he worked as a typographic consultant for the British photo typesetting machine manufacturer Crosfield Electronics. He met Adrian Frutiger while working with Deberny & Peignot in Paris . In 1965 he moved to the USA and worked for the next six years as a type developer for the Mergenthaler Linotype Company in Brooklyn , New York City and then as a freelance type designer for various Linotype companies in the USA and Europe.
Matthew Carter in 1981 was co-founder of the magazine company Bitstream Inc. , Cambridge (Massachusetts) - in the 1980 years a well-known provider of high quality PostScript - fonts , which he left in 1991 along with Cherie Cone -. Since then, they have been running Carter & Cone Type, Inc. , also in Cambridge (Massachusetts).
Offices and Awards
- 1977 Appointment as Senior Critic for Graphic Design at the School of Fine Arts at Yale University
- 1978 Appointment as a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI)
- 1981 Royal Designer for Industry, Royal Society of Arts
- 1986 Frederic W. Goudy Award
- 1995 Middleton Award from the American Center for Design
- 1995 AIGA, gold medal
- 1996 Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design
- 1997 Type Directors Club TDC Medal for contributions to typography
- 1998 Vadim Award
- 2010 MacArthur Fellowship
- 2011 National Design Award
Exhibitions
- 2002 Typographically Speaking: The Art of Matthew Carter exhibition, University of Maryland
- 2005 Typographically Speaking: The Art of Matthew Carter exhibition, on the occasion of the ATypI annual conference in Helsinki
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Some of the fonts designed by Matthew Carter are:
Bell Centennial, Cascade Script, Bitstream Charter , ITC Galliard, Olympian, Mantinia, Miller, Shelley Script, Snell Roundhand, Skia and the Sophia. For Microsoft he designed the Georgia (with the Georgia Ref and MS Reference Serif variants) and the Verdana (with the Verdana Ref and MS Reference Sans Serif variants and the derived fonts Tahoma and Meiryo).
Along with Hermann Zapf , Adrian Frutiger and Erik Spiekermann, he is one of the pioneers in computer font development.
See also
Web links
- The writings of Matthew Carter, until 2003 (PDF file; 289 kB)
- Matthew Carter . Design Museum + British Council, November 27, 2005, archived from the original on March17, 2006; accessed on December 27, 2015(English, original website no longer available).
- Book for the exhibition "The Art of Matthew Carter"
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Carter, Matthew |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British typographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 1, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |