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 Information about the font designer Vladimir Yefimov and his typefaces.
Vladimir Yefimov was born in Moscow, Russia, in 1949. He studied at Moscow Art School and graduated Moscow Printing Institute in 1973 as a graphic designer. He worked at the Type Department of NPO Polygraphmash (1973-91) and at ParaGraph Intl., Moscow (1992-98) designing Cyrillic typefaces. He is now the art director and a co-founder of ParaType, Inc., Moscow.
Vladimir Yefimov is also the author of many articles and the editor of several books on typography and type design. He lectures on type design at the Higher Academical School of Graphic Design, Moscow (since 1997) and at the British Higher School of Art and Design, Moscow (since 2003). He is a participant in several exhibitions of type and book design in Moscow and a member of the jury of some type contests including bukva:raz!, the type design competition of the ATypI (2001). He is a recipient of the Grand Prize at the Golden Bee 3, a biennale of graphic design, in the Typeface category (Moscow, 1996), and of the Typographic Excellence Certificate at the TDC2 (New York, 2000). He is a member of the Moscow Artists Union, a member of the Academy of Graphic Design, Moscow, and a member of the Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI).
Among his most well known typeface designs are AdverGothic, Didona, Lazurski, Newton, Octava, Petersburg, , ITC Avant Garde Gothic Cyrillic, ITC Benguiat Cyrillic, ITC Charter Cyrillic, Futura Cyrillic, Kis Cyrillic, Mason Cyrillic, and ITC Zapf Chancery Cyrillic.
[Vladimir Yefimov, September 2006]
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