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Designer Zuzana Licko

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Zuzana Licko (born 1961) is an American type designer and visual artist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuzana_Licko

Image from No Web Without Women~
https://nowebwithoutwomen.com/

In 1984, the Apple Macintosh computer was introduced, ushering in a new era of digital type design.

That same year, Rudy VanderLans and Zuzana Licko founded Emigre Graphics in San Francisco. Soon, this typeface foundry and its magazine, Emigre, became the late 20th century’s wellspring of experimental digital typography and graphic design.

Quote from the web site Poster House
https://posterhouse.org/exhibition/the-revolution-will-be-digitized-typefaces-from-emigre-fuse/

Emigre digital font catalogue, 1986 / San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA

Emigre 4, The Magazine That Ignores Boundaries, 1986 / Museum of Modern Art, NYC

Mrs Eaves typeface, designed by Zuzana Licko / Emigre digital type foundry, Berkeley, CA

Zuzana Licko’s Ceramic vases / Jacquard Weavings / Terra Cotta Garden Cones Sculptures
These images from  https://www.zuzanalicko.com/vases.php
https://ksmallgallery.com/blogs/exhibits/zuzana-licko-9-jacquard-weavings
https://www.wescover.com/p/terra-cotta-garden-cones-sculpture-by-zuzana-licko–PS1NMxFZXO

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Further reading:
https://www.eyemagazine.com/feature/article/reputations-zuzana-licko
https://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/the-daily-heller-vanderlans-licko-return-to-their-bitmap-roots/

June 5~ Pride Month

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Charles Shannon and Charles Ricketts

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Artistic and personal partners for more than fifty years, Ricketts and Shannon designed and illustrated books, established an occasional art journal, The Dial, in 1889 and founded the Vale Press in 1894. Named after their house, The Vale, in Chelsea, they published a total of about 75 books, including a complete reprint of the works of Shakespeare.
~The Fitzwilliam Museum

Mr Charles Ricketts and Mr Charles Hazelwood Shannon [Part IX]
by Sir William Rothenstein / 1897 / Tate Britain, London, UK

Don Juan challenging the Commander by Charles Ricketts
c.1928 / Oil on canvas / Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK

Charles de Sousy Ricketts by Charles Haslewood Shannon
1898 / Oil on canvas / National Portrait Gallery, London, UK

 

Artist Birthday Quiz for 1/22~

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What French painter, illustrator, and designer began painting in an Impressionist style but then became successively involved with the Cubism, Dada, and Surrealism movements?

What Dutch graphic and type designer has developed many popular typefaces, including those used by the signage systems of the Dutch highways and the Amsterdam metro?

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/01/22/january-22/

Artist Birthday Quiz for 5/13~

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What artist collaborated with Pablo Picasso, during which time among other things they developed Cubism, from 1909 until 1914?

In 1972, which German designer refined Olympic pictograms into the concise system that most people think of today as the symbols of the games?

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/05/13/may-13/

Artist Birthday Quiz for 1/22~

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What French painter, illustrator, and designer began painting in an Impressionist style but then became successively involved with the Cubism, Dada, and Surrealism movements?

What Dutch graphic and type designer has developed many popular typefaces, including those used by the signage systems of the Dutch highways and the Amsterdam metro?

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/01/22/january-22/