Jill Bell
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Jill Bell is a lettering artist, calligrapher and type designer.
A graduate of UCLA and Otis/Parsons, Bell is a graphic artist who creates custom lettering, logotypes, titles, fonts and handwriting for advertising, entertainment, packaging, and publishing. Before establishing herself as a freelance artist, she worked as sign painter in a shop, and for Saul Bass
. She also creates original, one-of-a-kind, fine art pieces that frequently feature alphabets and lettering.
Bell has created fonts for most of the major type foundrys including ITC (International Typeface Corporation
), Adobe Systems
and Monotype Corporation
. Her fonts include: Gigi, Smack, Carumba, Hollyweird, Bruno and Swank. She has also designed and produced proprietary fonts for companies including Loehmann's
, Enesco
, GSW Worldwide, the Navicor Group and Nestlé
.
Jill Bell's work has appeared in various shows, annuals and books, and has been written about in newspapers, journals and magazines (How, Step-by-Step, Letter Arts Review, Review, Tupigrafia, Publish, Creation Numerique, etc.). Her work can be seen in the following books:
and in other books on type and lettering.
She has spoken at numerous schools, universities, professional organizations and conferences such as Seybold, ATypI
, TypeCon
, AIGA
, TypoBerlin, NY TDC (Type Directors Club
), and was the keynote speaker at TypoTechnica 2002 in Heidelberg, Germany. She will be a Maestro (judging calligraphy, speaking and teaching) at the Delphic Games in Jeju, South Korea in September, 2009.
Bell judged TDC2 2002, the type design contest of the Type Directors Club
, and Linotype's Type Design Contest in Bad Homburg, Germany in 2004.
Bell publishes the monthly Letter News Newsletter, http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs019/1102176317586/archive/1102185078312.html an informative monthly e-newsletter which contains information about any and all aspects of lettering and typography.
A graduate of UCLA and Otis/Parsons, Bell is a graphic artist who creates custom lettering, logotypes, titles, fonts and handwriting for advertising, entertainment, packaging, and publishing. Before establishing herself as a freelance artist, she worked as sign painter in a shop, and for Saul Bass
Saul Bass
Saul Bass was a Jewish-American graphic designer and filmmaker, best known for his design of motion picture title sequences....
. She also creates original, one-of-a-kind, fine art pieces that frequently feature alphabets and lettering.
Bell has created fonts for most of the major type foundrys including ITC (International Typeface Corporation
International 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...
), Adobe Systems
Adobe Systems
Adobe Systems Incorporated is an American computer software company founded in 1982 and headquartered in San Jose, California, United States...
and Monotype Corporation
Monotype Corporation
Monotype Imaging Holdings is a Delaware corporation based in Woburn, Massachusetts and specializing in typesetting and typeface design as well as text and imaging solutions for use with consumer electronics devices. Monotype Imaging Holdings is the owner of Monotype Imaging Inc., Linotype,...
. Her fonts include: Gigi, Smack, Carumba, Hollyweird, Bruno and Swank. She has also designed and produced proprietary fonts for companies including Loehmann's
Loehmann's
Loehmann's is a chain of off-price department stores in the United States.Loehmann's is best known for its "Back Room," where women interested in fashion can find designer clothes at prices lower than in department or specialty stores...
, Enesco
Enesco
Enesco is an American company specializing in the sales and distribution of giftware. The company was known as an industry leader during the 1970s, '80s, and '90s, as it carried the Precious Moments porcelain figurine line of products.-History:...
, GSW Worldwide, the Navicor Group and Nestlé
Nestlé
Nestlé S.A. is the world's largest food and nutrition company. Founded and headquartered in Vevey, Switzerland, Nestlé originated in a 1905 merger of the Anglo-Swiss Milk Company, established in 1867 by brothers George Page and Charles Page, and Farine Lactée Henri Nestlé, founded in 1866 by Henri...
.
Jill Bell's work has appeared in various shows, annuals and books, and has been written about in newspapers, journals and magazines (How, Step-by-Step, Letter Arts Review, Review, Tupigrafia, Publish, Creation Numerique, etc.). Her work can be seen in the following books:
- Type Rules by Ilene Strizver,
- Creative Type by de Jong, Purvis and Friedl,
- Alphabook by Roger Walton editor,
- Extreme Fonts by Drate and Salavetz,
and in other books on type and lettering.
She has spoken at numerous schools, universities, professional organizations and conferences such as Seybold, ATypI
ATypI
The ATypI or the Association Typographique Internationale is an international non-profit organisation dedicated to typography.-The organisation:...
, TypeCon
TypeCon
TypeCon is a grassroots, typography-focused convention run by the non-profit Society of Typographic Aficionados. The content of TypeCon conferences focuses on — but is not limited to — the areas of typography, type design, printing, letterpress, calligraphy, the book arts, publishing, design...
, AIGA
Aiga
‘Aiga is a word in the Samoan language which means 'family.' The aiga is the family unit of Samoan society and differs from the Western sense in that it consists more than just a mother, father and children. The Samoan family, also referred to as an 'extended family' is based on the culture's...
, TypoBerlin, NY TDC (Type Directors Club
Type Directors Club
The Type Directors Club is an international organization for those devoted to excellence in typography in all its forms. Created in 1946, the organization’s mission is to raise the standards of typography and related fields within the graphic arts. The TDC supports research and education, and...
), and was the keynote speaker at TypoTechnica 2002 in Heidelberg, Germany. She will be a Maestro (judging calligraphy, speaking and teaching) at the Delphic Games in Jeju, South Korea in September, 2009.
Bell judged TDC2 2002, the type design contest of the Type Directors Club
Type Directors Club
The Type Directors Club is an international organization for those devoted to excellence in typography in all its forms. Created in 1946, the organization’s mission is to raise the standards of typography and related fields within the graphic arts. The TDC supports research and education, and...
, and Linotype's Type Design Contest in Bad Homburg, Germany in 2004.
Bell publishes the monthly Letter News Newsletter, http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs019/1102176317586/archive/1102185078312.html an informative monthly e-newsletter which contains information about any and all aspects of lettering and typography.