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Reply to: RE>women typographers?
RE:
[Can anyone suggests some famous women typographers or print specialists?
We name all of our printers in our lab after people, but we realized the
other day that they were all men.]
These may not be the kind of people you're looking for, but here goes:
How about Susan Kare? Below is an excerpt from MacUser, March '93, p. 93,
Editor's Choice Awards (she won the John J. Anderson Distinguished Achievement
Award):
"From the icons to the window designs to the original fonts -- including
Chicago, Geneva, and the notorious San Francisco -- Susan Kare changed our
expectations of how what we see on a computer screen should look and feel."
Or how about the woman who designed the Ben & Jerry's typeface? [Her name
escapes me now.]
