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VGC Typeface Design Competition Announcement

Photo(s) by Nick Sherman. Imported from Flickr on Dec 28, 2012. Artwork published in
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    VGC Typeface Design Competition Announcement 1
    Source: http://www.flickr.com Uploaded to Flickr by Nick Sherman and tagged with “pistilliroman”. License: CC BY-NC-SA.

    Announcement for a national typeface design competition sponsored by Visual Graphics Corporation.

    Herb Lubalin designed the cover/poster (the first use of Pistilli Roman), Aaron Burns designed the rest.

    Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design & Typography at Cooper Union; East Village, Manhattan

    VGC Typeface Design Competition Announcement 2
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    VGC Typeface Design Competition Announcement 3
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    VGC Typeface Design Competition Announcement 4
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    1 Comment on “VGC Typeface Design Competition Announcement”

    1. Stephen Coles says:
      Feb 22nd, 2015 8:47 pm

      Note that the decorative “foxtail” numerals shown here for Pistilli Roman are the oldstyle figures available in addition to the ball-terminaled lining figures found in the specimen that appeared a year later.

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