Charles bigelow type designer biography
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Charles bigelow type designer biography
Charles Bigelow (type designer)
American graphic and type designer
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| Born | () July 29, (age&#;79) Detroit, Michigan, U.S. |
| Education | Reed College (BA) |
| Occupation | Type designer |
Charles A.
Bigelow (born July 29, ) is an American type historian, professor, and designer. Bigelow grew up in the Detroit suburbs and attended the Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills. He received a MacArthur Fellowship in , the Frederic W.
Goudy Award in , Sloan Science and Film screenwriting awards in and , and other honors. Along with Kris Holmes, he is the co-creator of Lucida and Wingdings font families. He is a principal of the Bigelow and Holmes studio.
Bigelow received a BA in anthropology in Reed College and was a professor of digital typography at Stanford University from to As president of the Committee on Letterform Research and Education of ATypI, he organized the first international seminar on digital type design: "The Computer and