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Information about the font designer Christian Schwartz and his typefaces.
Christian Schwartz was born in 1977 and grew up in a small town in New Hampshire. He graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 1999 with a degree in Communication Design, and then spent 3 months as the in-house type designer at MetaDesign Berlin.
He joined Font Bureau as a member of the full-time design staff in 2000. Christian founded Orange Italic with Chicago-based designer Dino Sanchez at the end of 2000, and left Font Bureau in August 2001 to work as an independent designer in the New York area. Christian has designed commercial fonts for Emigre, FontShop, House Industries (including the popular Neutraface family), and Font Bureau, as well as proprietary designs for corporations and publications.
His work has been honored by the New York Type Directors club and the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum.
[Christian Schwartz, June 2003]
Web site: http://www.christianschwartz.com/
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