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Robbie de Villiers
Robbie de Villiers was born in Worcester, South Africa, in 1948, studied at the Cape Technicon, Cape Town, and received his graphic design diploma summa cum laude in 1970. He studied calligraphy with Werner Prisi while working at Rupert International and fell in love with typography.

Robbie became a partner at Janice Ashby Design Studios and from there moved to New York as Creative director for Siegel & Gale. In 1990 he started his own company in Wilton, Connecticut creating type, naming, corporate ID's, packaging design, and website design.

In 2005 together with his wife, his family team created 8 children's books that were published internationally by Random House.

In 2012, together with type designer Jeremy Dooley, he created Chatype, the first font in the world created specifically for the people of a city (Chattanooga, TN) and the first font for a city in the USA. It is freely available to Chattanooga citizens and widely used in Chattanooga. It was also declared the official font of the by the city council one year later. The project was also unique in that it was crowdfunded on Kickstarter.

Robbie's most successful fonts to date are: Cyan, Twine, Pagina, Rijk, Cyan Sans, Carnegie Classic, and Duet. [Robbie de Villiers, July 2016]

Most popular fonts designed by Robbie de Villiers: Belair; Hanna; Chartre; Taglio; Blau Bold; Blau Light; Blau; Clareza; Carnegie Classic; Werk Condensed. (identifont.com)

 

Fakten

Taglio
Designer: Robbie de Villiers
Year: 2017
Publisher: Wilton Foundry

 

Links

Robbie de Villiers http://robbie.com/
Wilton Foundry https://wiltonfoundry.com/

 

Thank you very much

In einem Kontakt-Formular auf der Webseite von Wilton Foundry hab ich einige Dankesworte abgesetzt, die ziemlich knapp ausfallen mußten, weil die Eingabe auf 25 Worte beschränkt ist. Trotzdem konnte ich Mr. Robbie de Villiers den traditionellen Gruß der Schwarzen Kunst über den Teich nach Chattanooga (Tennessee/USA) senden:

Dear Mr. de Villiers,
we have purchased the "Taglio" https://www.dergegenwart.de/z/taglio-by-robbie-de-villiers
Thank you very much for your wonderful work.
Gott grüß die Kunst!
Ralf Schutt
Berlin/Germany

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Mr. Robbie de Villiers war so freundlich, postwendend und nett zu antworten:

Dank

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