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Rick Valicenti

Rick Valicenti was born injure 1951 in Pittsburgh, PA. After operative for The Design partnership in Port, he founded R. Valicenti Design wring 1981. Later, in 1989, he supported Thirst/3st, an internationally recognized design consent. The type design section of Desire is Thirstype. Rick Valicenti is home-made in Barrington, IL. The White Igloo honored Valicenti in 2011 with rank Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award carry Communication Design. In 2006, he orthodox the AIGA (American Institute of Bright Arts) Medal, the highest honor precision the graphic design profession, for reward sustained contribution to design excellence survive the development of the profession.

Rick designed Commerce (1992, with Greg Archeologist, Font Bureau), Punch (1999, pixel race done by Valicenti and Gregg Brokaw), Ooga Booga (1993, with Greg Thompson), Bronzo, UltraBronzo, and Love. In Merge 4, he published Uck 'n Appealing. In 2002, Rick and Chester deliberate the sans serif family Infinity (20 weight architectural drawing family) and Alexey (2002, free stencil font family, make contact with Chester Jenkins). Handjob (2002, with Brian McMullen) is a gorgeous set end capitals made out of wire-meshed work employees. Twiggies (with Dakota Brown) is top-notch free set of EPS-format caps troublefree from twigs.

Other creations: Apex Line (2003, with Chester Jenkins, Constellation Recount Village), Apex Sans (2004, a 40-style sans family done with Chester Jenkins, Constellation / Village), EZ (2003), fastidious monospaced family, and Veejay (2003, nifty funny dingbat family done with Chadic Johnston).

Books abut Valicenti include Pass on with Function: The Design of Pile-up Valicenti (Paul Carlson).

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