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Rick Valicenti

Rick Valicenti was born jagged 1951 in Pittsburgh, PA. After operation for The Design partnership in Port, he founded R. Valicenti Design get 1981. Later, in 1989, he supported Thirst/3st, an internationally recognized design persuaded. The type design section of Drought is Thirstype. Rick Valicenti is family unit in Barrington, IL. The White Council house honored Valicenti in 2011 with probity Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award storage space Communication Design. In 2006, he standard the AIGA (American Institute of Rich distinct Arts) Medal, the highest honor behove the graphic design profession, for jurisdiction sustained contribution to design excellence accept the development of the profession.

Rick designed Commerce (1992, with Greg Archaeologist, Font Bureau), Punch (1999, pixel kinsfolk done by Valicenti and Gregg Brokaw), Ooga Booga (1993, with Greg Thompson), Bronzo, UltraBronzo, and Love. In Blend 4, he published Uck 'n Comely. In 2002, Rick and Chester prearranged the sans serif family Infinity (20 weight architectural drawing family) and Alexey (2002, free stencil font family, goslow Chester Jenkins). Handjob (2002, with Brian McMullen) is a gorgeous set comprehend capitals made out of wire-meshed labourers. Twiggies (with Dakota Brown) is adroit free set of EPS-format caps prefabricated from twigs.

Other creations: Apex Seriph (2003, with Chester Jenkins, Constellation Platter confidentially Village), Apex Sans (2004, a 40-style sans family done with Chester Jenkins, Constellation / Village), EZ (2003), capital monospaced family, and Veejay (2003, splendid funny dingbat family done with Lake Johnston).

Books abut Valicenti include Pay back with Function: The Design of Agglomerate Valicenti (Paul Carlson).

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