The document discusses the career of a type designer who obtained a job with Adobe Systems in 1988, where she created her first type design. The following year, she won first place in a Latin text category competition. Adobe then released her typeface design called Trajan. The document also quotes that type designers harness, reinforce, and invent social and cultural associations related to different letter styles through the creation and use of letterforms. It provides three cited references, including a YouTube video about Trajan being a movie font.
2. Thereafter she obtained entered into an international
Her first type design was a job with Adobe Systems, becoming a
full-time type designer won 1st A year later, in 1989, category.
competition where she in 1988. place in the Latin textAdobe
released Trajan.
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4. “Centuries of baggage have colored different
styles of letters with a wide array of
associations, as contextual relationships are
continually forged and forgotten. When
creating and using letterforms, designers
harness, reinforce, and invent these social and
cultural associations.” (Willen and Strals)
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9. Works Cited
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t87QKdOJN
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kirby1. "Trajan is the Movie Font
YouTube. Web. 29 Oct. 2012.
Willen, Bruce, and Nolen Strals. Lettering &
Type: Creating Letters and Designing
Typefaces. New York: Princeton Architectural,
2009. Print.