Ilene Strizver
Encyclopedia
Ilene Strizver is a noted typographic educator, author, designer and founder of The Type Studio in Westport, Connecticut. Her book, Type Rules! The designer’s guide to professional typography, is now in its 3rd edition.
(ITC), where she developed more than 300 text and display typefaces with such respected and world-renowned type designers as Sumner Stone
, Erik Spiekermann
, Jill Bell, Jim Parkinson, Tim Donaldson, and the late Phill Grimshaw. Prior to ITC, she was Creative & Production Director of Upper & lowercase (U&lc), the award-winning international journal for typography and typographic design. She worked with such legendary type icons as Ed Benguiat
, Aaron Burns and Herb Lubalin
.
Strizver has written for HOW, Dynamic Graphics, and STEP Inside Design, Letterspace and U&lc Online. She is the author of fy(t)I For Your Typographic Information, which is published at www.fonts.com and www.itcfonts. com. She also writes TypeTalk for creativepro.com. Strizver has conducted her Gourmet Typography workshops nationally and internationally. Her clients include International Typeface Corporation (ITC), Monotype Imaging Corporation, Adobe, Linotype, Galápagos Design Group, Whole Foods, Harlequin Books, Somerset Entertainment, Integrated Marketing, Parents Magazine, MeadWestvaco, Nationwide Insurance, Life is good, Inc., Alliance Atlantis, Johnson & Johnson, Nassau Guardian, and b-there.com.
Strizver is a member of the NY Type Directors Club, where she served two terms on the Board of Directors. She was chairperson of the TDC2 Type Design Competition. She also served two terms on the Board of Directors of the Society of Typographic Aficionados
(SOTA), and chaired the SOTA Type and Design Education Forum from 2006-2009. She is a faculty member at the School of Visual Arts
in New York City.
Life and career
Strizver was the Director of Typeface Development for International Typeface CorporationInternational Typeface Corporation
The International Typeface Corporation was a type manufacturer founded in New York in 1970 by Aaron Burns, Herb Lubalin, and Edward Rondthaler. The company was one of the world's first type foundries to have no history in the production of metal type...
(ITC), where she developed more than 300 text and display typefaces with such respected and world-renowned type designers as Sumner Stone
Sumner Stone
Sumner Stone is a typeface designer and graphic artist. He notably designed ITC Stone while working for Adobe. A specimen of ITC Stone exists at his personal website.-Career:...
, Erik Spiekermann
Erik Spiekermann
Erik Spiekermann is a German typographer and designer. He is a professor at the University of the Arts Bremen....
, Jill Bell, Jim Parkinson, Tim Donaldson, and the late Phill Grimshaw. Prior to ITC, she was Creative & Production Director of Upper & lowercase (U&lc), the award-winning international journal for typography and typographic design. She worked with such legendary type icons as Ed Benguiat
Ed Benguiat
Ed Benguiat is an American typographer. He has crafted over 600 typefaces including Tiffany, Bookman, Panache, Edwardian Script, and the self-titled typefaces Benguiat and Benguiat Gothic...
, Aaron Burns and Herb Lubalin
Herb Lubalin
Herbert F. Lubalin was a prominent American graphic designer. He collaborated with Ralph Ginzburg on three of Ginzburg's magazines: Eros, Fact, and Avant Garde, and was responsible for the creative visual beauty of these publications...
.
Strizver has written for HOW, Dynamic Graphics, and STEP Inside Design, Letterspace and U&lc Online. She is the author of fy(t)I For Your Typographic Information, which is published at www.fonts.com and www.itcfonts. com. She also writes TypeTalk for creativepro.com. Strizver has conducted her Gourmet Typography workshops nationally and internationally. Her clients include International Typeface Corporation (ITC), Monotype Imaging Corporation, Adobe, Linotype, Galápagos Design Group, Whole Foods, Harlequin Books, Somerset Entertainment, Integrated Marketing, Parents Magazine, MeadWestvaco, Nationwide Insurance, Life is good, Inc., Alliance Atlantis, Johnson & Johnson, Nassau Guardian, and b-there.com.
Strizver is a member of the NY Type Directors Club, where she served two terms on the Board of Directors. She was chairperson of the TDC2 Type Design Competition. She also served two terms on the Board of Directors of the Society of Typographic Aficionados
Society of Typographic Aficionados
The Society of Typographic Aficionados is an international not-for-profit organization dedicated to the promotion, study, and support of type, its history and development, its use in the world of print and digital imagery, its designers, and its admirers....
(SOTA), and chaired the SOTA Type and Design Education Forum from 2006-2009. She is a faculty member at the School of Visual Arts
School of Visual Arts
The School of Visual Arts , is a proprietary art school located in Manhattan, New York City, and is widely considered to be one of the leading art schools in the United States. It was established in 1947 by co-founders Silas H. Rhodes and Burne Hogarth as the Cartoonists and Illustrators School and...
in New York City.
Education
After studying the French horn at SUNY Binghamton, Strizver received a BFA in art and painting from the University of New Mexico. She continued studying graphic arts and calligraphy at the School of Visual Arts, where she was mentored by Benguiat.External links
- http://www.thetypestudio.com/
- http://www.creativepro.com/articles/author/127543
- http://www.fonts.com/AboutFonts/Articles/fyti/index.htm