![]() He began his career as an electronic fontmaker in 1997 when a friend, frustrated with trying to learn Fontographer, sold Curtis his copy of the program. All during that time, he kept his interest and fascination with fonts alive. (By the way, the tiles eventually became a tabletop.)Ĭurtis eventually pursued a career in graphic design: at a college, doing freelance concert poster lettering in the late 60s, at a computer company, at an audiovisual production company, at an NBC affiliate television station and at a prepress shop, along the way. Inside the binder were fonts, more than he had ever seen or knew existed. This particular day Curtis hit the motherlode: hundreds and hundreds of glass mosaic tiles in various shades of blue, and a big fat green binder from JCS Typographers of Dallas. One fateful afternoon in 1962 - the day before trash pick-up day - he was cruising the alleys in his neighborhood in East Dallas in search of tossed treasures. Nick Curtis can fix the precise moment when his love affair with typefaces began. Curtis include Cuppa Joe, Zinzinnati and Mister Chuckles, all published by ITC. ![]() ![]() He credits Push Pin Studios and the Haight-Ashbury Art Nouveau revival of the 60s as other major influences. A graphic designer with over thirty years of experience in print, A/V, broadcast television and the Web, Nick Curtis has been passionately interested in typography ever since he discovered a type specimen book in his early teens. ![]()
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