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VGC Typeface Design Competition Announcement

Photo(s) by Nick ShermanImported from Flickr on Dec 28, 2012. Artwork published in .
VGC Typeface Design Competition Announcement 1
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Announcement for a national typeface design competition sponsored by Visual Graphics Corporation.

Herb Lubalin designed the cover/poster (the first use of Pistilli Roman), Aaron Burns designed the rest.

Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design & Typography at Cooper Union; East Village, Manhattan

VGC Typeface Design Competition Announcement 2
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VGC Typeface Design Competition Announcement 3
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VGC Typeface Design Competition Announcement 4
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  • Pistilli Roman
  • News Gothic

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4 Comments on “VGC Typeface Design Competition Announcement”

  1. Note that the decorative “foxtail” numerals shown here for Pistilli Roman are the oldstyle figures available in addition to the ball-terminaled lining figures found in the specimen that appeared a year later.

  2. See also the announcement of the competition as shown in Graphis No. 121, also designed by Herb Lubalin and featuring a more extensive glyph set. See also how the accents and punctuation from this showing were reused on the cover of a Harry Volk booklet.

    Scan courtesy of IADDB.

  3. Stephen has more pics from that booklet:

    The winners were announced already in April 1965, in The American Press. The article mentions that VGC handed out cash prizes ($1,000 for 1st, $500 for 2nd, $250 for 3rd, and $100 each for the other twelve), plus royalty contracts for all fifteen winners. According to OH no’s research, though, Louis Minott received $1,000 for his Davida, but no royalties.

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