Carol Twombly
Carol Twombly | |
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Born | Concord, Massachusetts, U.S. | June 13, 1959
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Rhode Island School of Design Stanford University |
Known for | Typography, digital fonts |
Notable work |
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Carol Twombly (born June 13, 1959) is an American designer, best known for her type design.
Twombly retired from Adobe and from type design in early 1999, to focus on her other design interests, involving textiles and jewelry.[3][4]
A biography of Twombly and her type design career by Nancy Stock-Allen was published in 2016.[5][6]
Education
Carol Twombly was born June 13, 1959, in Concord, Massachusetts.[7] She attended and graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) where she first studied sculpture, and later changed her major to graphic design. She credits her professors Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes, whose studio she worked in,[8] for her inspiration and stimulating her interest in typography. Gerard Unger, a visiting instructor at RISD during Twombly's time as a student, also influenced her work.[7] At Stanford University Twombly was one of only five people to graduate from the short-lived digital typography program with Masters of Science degrees in computer science and typographic design.[3]
Career
Twombly joined Adobe in 1988. One of her first projects at Adobe was Trajan.
Awards
In her first international type design competition, Twombly was awarded the Morisawa gold prize for her typeface design in 1984.
Typefaces by Twombly
- Adobe Caslon (1990)
- Californian FB(roman only)
- Chaparral (1997)
- Charlemagne (1989)
- Lithos (1989)
- Mirarae (1984)
- Myriad (1991, designed with Robert Slimbach)
- Nueva (1994)
- Trajan (1989)
- Viva (1993)
Under Twombly's art direction, fonts such as Ponderosa, Pepperwood, Zebrawood, and Rosewood, were part of an Adobe project to revive American display typefaces in wood type from the 1880s.[18][19][20] After this series, she went on to design two more typefaces for Adobe: Nueva, an original design, and Chaparral, which references nineteenth-century slab serif forms and sixteenth-century roman book hand, a calligraphic form. She designed Chaparral in collaboration with calligrapher Linnea Lundquist.[21]
Retirement
Twombly left Adobe in 1999. Speaking in 2014, she cited a variety of reasons for the decision, including a lack of interest in designing fonts for onscreen display and the market failure of Adobe's
References
- ^ Webber, Laura. "Women typeface designers". RIT Scholar Works. Rochester Institute of Technology (thesis). Retrieved 4 March 2017.
- ^ Riggs, Tamye. "The Adobe Originals Silver Anniversary Story: A community perspective on the Originals program". Typekit. Adobe Systems. Retrieved 4 March 2017.
- ^ a b c "Carol Twombly". Adobe. Retrieved March 7, 2015.
- ^ a b Riggs, Tamye. "The Adobe Originals Silver Anniversary Story". Typekit blog. Adobe. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
- ISBN 9781584563464. Retrieved 4 March 2017.
- ^ Carey-Smith, Elizabeth (9 November 2012). "Review: 'Carol Twombly: Her brief but brilliant career in type design'". Alphabettes. Retrieved 4 March 2017.
- ^ OCLC 959166624.
- ^ "Typeface Designer Carol Twombly's Short but Brilliant Career". The Book Designer. 2010-03-19. Retrieved 2020-12-12.
- Adobe Systems. Retrieved 8 January 2016.
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- ^ Zhukov, Maxim. "The Trajan Letter in Russia and America". Typejournal.ru. Retrieved 4 March 2017.
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- ^ "Twombly, Carol" in Friedl, Friedrich, Nicolaus Ott, and Bernard Stein. Typography : an Encyclopedic Survey of Type Design and Techniques Throughout History. New York: Black Dog & Leventhal, 1998, pp. 517-518.
- OCLC 962730154.
- ^ "The Adobe Originals Silver Anniversary Story: Expanding the Originals". Typekit. Adobe Systems. Retrieved 8 January 2016.
- ^ "Families by Carol Twombly". Fontshop. Retrieved March 7, 2015.
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