James Montalbano :
You Can't Get There From Here. Designing Type for Federal Highways.

Date and Time :

6:00-8:00 pm
Thursday 18 September 2003

Venue :

TDC Offices : 60 East 42nd suite 721

After ten years of development, ClearviewHwy® is finally being adopted by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) for use on all federal roads. This presentation will cover the research and development of this type system and discuss such issues as; readability & legibility, halation/overglow, and negative & positive contrast. The development of the typographic identity for the U.S. National Park Service and how legibility lessons learned there were applied to ClearviewHwy will also be presented.

James Montalbano is principal of Terminal Design, Inc. an independent type design and lettering studio, creating original and custom work for advertising, editorial, corporate, publishing and government clients.

Some of the clients that Terminal Design has created custom typefaces and lettering for are: Vanity Fair, Vogue, Mademoiselle, Lucky, Glamour, Gourmet, Details , Book, Jane, Money, Forbes and Sassy magazines as well as the InterBrand, FutureBrand, U.S. National Park Service, JC Penny, American Medical Association, Little Brown & Co, Inc. and Scribner.

More Info :

TDC Type Directors Club
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New York, NY   10165-0721
USA

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