Matthew Carter Matthew Carter Background I am not sorry that I began learning to make type before learning to design it Born in 1937 in London England Son of Oxford press historian also typographer and book designer Accepted into Oxford in 1955 Spent a year at the Enschege type foundry in Haarlem Netherlands Learned how to make letters by hand and carve steel charcters After the time spent at the foundry Carter decides not to attend Oxford Matthew Carter Career Early 1960 s Carter worked as a freelance designer and lettering artist Mid 1960 s came to New York to work at Mergenthaler Linotype beginning as a staff type designer Carter helped build one of the industry s largest and richest libraries of fonts 1970 s Carter works as freelance type designer in London for Linotype companies in the US Germany and the UK 1981 co founds Bitstream the first independent digital typefoundry 1991 Carter Cone Type Inc in Cambridge MA Matthew Carter Awards Recognitions Royal Designer for Industry Received the Frederic W Goudy Award for outstanding contribution to the printing industry The Middleton Award from the American Center for Design A Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design The AIGA medal The Type Directors Club medal Holds honorary degree of Doctor of Fine Arts Matthew Carter Designs Our alphabet hasn t changed in eons there isn t much latitude in what a designer can do with the individual letters Much like a piece of classical music the score is written down it s not something that is tampered with and yet each conductor interprets that score differently There is tension in the interpretation Matthew Carter ITC Galliard Galliard Italic Matthew Carter Snell Roundhand Matthew Carter Bell Centenial Name and Number Matthew Carter Walker Matthew Carter Verdana Matthew Carter Significance Matthew Carter s designs are ubiquitously present in the visual landscape of contemporary graphic design He commands a wider audience for his work than most artists ever dream of Open a book catalog from any major publisher and you will see ITC Galliard Browse a newsstand and some version of Miller News will pop into view Go online and you ll find Verdana everywhere on the Web His letterforms can be found like the basic atoms of graphic language in nearly every area of print and electronic communication Take Carter s letters out of our universe of words and that world would appear as gap toothed as a field of corn in the aftermath of the eager attention of a flock of crows Typographic Intelligence The Work of Matthew Carter Johanna Drucker Matthew Carter References Re Margaret Typographically Speaking The Art of Matthew Carter New York City Princeton Architectural Press 2003 Matthew Carter Typography Designer 1937 n d http www designmuseum org design index php id 123 n d Design Museum British Council Will Harris Daniel Georgia Verdana Typefaces designed for the screen finally n d http www will harris com verdana georgia htm Matthew Carter n d http en wikipedia org wiki Matthew Carter Wikipedia Presented by Carly Salindong DESMA 155 Winter 2007 Professor Peter Cho