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Words with Zuzana Licko / Emigre
My type design skills have developed along with the technology.
Q. Why did you become a type designer?
I started my college studies in architecture, but then changed my major to graphic design, and I soon realized that typography interested me the most. Experimenting with type as a form of illustration fascinated me. But this was before the digital revolution opened up type design to anyone with a personal computer; so at that point, I only got to use typefaces, not create them. The Macintosh computer was released the year I graduated. We purchased one, and I immediately started experimenting with designing bitmaps, which was state-of-the-art type design for the Mac at that point. (This was before PostScript ...
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