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The Day Mark Simonson Discovered Type Design
Mark Simonson:
Just by coincidence, I discovered a copy of U&lc magazine in the graphics classroom. U&lc was published by ITC, the International Typeface Corporation, a typeface publisher, and the designer and editor was the legendary Herb Lubalin. I’d never seen such beautiful typography and design. It was a motherlode for an aspiring typophile like me. [...]
I decided right then that someday, somehow, I wanted to design typefaces.