carol twombly

11/10/19 a brief biography mcc by kaleb mannigel 5/13/59 early life 155 Carol Twombly was born June 13, 1959 in Concord Massachusetts. She attended and graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design where she originally studied sculpture. Later on she decided to change her major to graphic design, while studying design, multiple professors steered Twombly in the direction of . These professors included Charles Biglow and Kris homes, Biglow a typographer and Kris a design teacher. She also gathered inspiration from Gerard Unger who at the time was a visiting instructor at RISD. After RISD Twombly graduated with Masters of Science degree in computer science and typographic design at Stanford University.

155 __ 155 Twombly joined Adobe in 1988. One of her first projects at Adobe was Trajan. As a designer, Twombly studied historical scripts for inspiration in creating digital fonts. She successfully translated Roman inscriptions into a modernized digital design and created the Trajan in 1989. She then moved on to designing many more well know fonts such as Lithos, Adobe Caslon and Myriad. Under her direction there were also display that were created including Ponderosa, Pepperwood, Zebrawood, and Rosewood.

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photo ( left ) Twombly working with peers at adobe

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In Carol Twomblys first international type design competition, she was awarded the Morisawa gold prize for her typeface design in 1984. Twombly was also the 1994 winner of the Prix Charles Peignot, given by the Association Typographique Internationale, a very prestigous award. 155

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In 1999 Twombly left Adobe. The reason was mainly for the lack of interest in designing fonts for onscreen display. She now works as an independent artist, focusing on forms such as drawing, painting and things like basket-making.

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One of her most famous typefaces, Adobe Caslon as seen pictured was an excellent remake of William Caslons infamoud typeface, Caslon Mant alterations were made but the most noticable alterations were the thickening and sharpening of the serifs, and the wider diagonals throughout the typeface. x

diagonal shown in circle, right under X __ “ The shapes drawn with the x hand are more organic and unpredictable and therefore more lively”

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