Christian Schwartz

Christian Schwartz (born December 30, 1977 in Concord, New Hampshire, USA) is an American type designer. He has been awarded the German Design Award and the Prix Charles Peignot.

Life

A graduate of the Communication Design program at Carnegie Mellon University,^[1] Schwartz first worked at MetaDesign Berlin, developing typefaces for Volkswagen and logos for various corporations. He then returned to the US and joined the design staff at Font Bureau.

Schwartz has worked independently in 2001, first forming Orange Italic with product designer Dino Sanchez and recently Schwartzco Inc.. He has released commercial fonts with Village, FontFont, Emigre, House Industries and Font Bureau. Many of Schwartz’s typefaces have been proprietary designs for corporations such as Bosch and Deutsche Bahn, both with noted designer Erik Spiekermann, and EMI, for the marketing of George Harrison’s posthumous final album. Schwartz has also designed typefaces for many publications including the US edition of Esquire, and the extensive Guardian Egyptian family, with Paul Barnes, for the redesign of The Guardian newspaper in 2005.

Schwartz’s typefaces have been honored by the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum,^{[citation needed]} the New York Type Director's Club,^{[citation needed]} and the International Society of Typographic Designers,^{[citation needed]} and his work with Barnes has been honored by D&AD and as part of the Guardian redesign team they were shortlisted for the Designer of the Year prize by the Design Museum in London.^{[citation needed]} In 2006, Schwartz and Barnes were named two of the 40 most influential designers under 40 by Wallpaper* magazine.^{[citation needed]}

Typefaces

Typefaces designed by Christian Schwartz include:

Amplitude, 2003 Atlas, 1993 FF Bau, 2002 Bosch, 2004 (with Erik Spiekermann) Deutsche Bahn, 2005 (with Erik Spiekermann) Eero, 2003 (after Eero Saarinen) Elroy, 1993 Farnham, 2004 Flywheel, 1992 Fritz, 1997 Guardian Egyptian, 2004 (with Paul Barnes) Hairspray, 1994 Harrison, 2002 Houston, 2003

Casa Latino!, 1999 Local Gothic, 2006 Los Feliz, 2001 Luxury, 2006 (with Dino Sanchez) FF Meta Headline, 2006 (with Erik Spiekermann & Joshua Darden) Morticia, 1995 Neutraface, 2002 Neutraface Slab, 2009 FF Oxide, 2005 Pennsylvania, 2000 Popular, 2004 Simian, 2001 Stag, 2005 Symantec, 2003 (with Conor Mangat) FF Unit, 2003 (with Erik Spiekermann)

References

1. ^ "Typography of Christian Schwartz". Metropolis. March 1, 2004. http://www.metropolismag.com/story/20040301/typography-of-christian-schwartz. Retrieved 4 August 2010. 

External links

• Schwartzco Inc.
• Christian Schwartz

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