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Carol Twombly
Carol Twombly va estudiar Disseny i Gerard Unger li va impartir tipografia digital. Va cursar un curs de Tipografia digital creat per Bigelow, qui li va inspirar en el disseny de tipus des de un principi. El seu primer tipus fou la Mirarae (1984) la qual va ser premiada pel primer premi de typerface per la firma Morisawa. Seguidament va treballar per Adobe, on els seus treballs van ser complementats amb en Robert Slimbach.
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Carter, S. Twentieth century type designers. Londres. Trefoil Publications Ltd, 1987, p.184-185.
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“Carol Twombly’s work for Adobe has admirably complemented Robert Slimbach’s. Her designs have been largely for display faces, with the exception of her sophisticated versión of Caslon, and when they collaborated in Myriad the work seems to have been preternaturally even-handed, with each partner working on sets of drawings and then exchanging them.
Twombly was born in Concord, Massachusetts, on 13 June 1959, and studied at the Rhode Island School of Design, where she was taught by Charles Bigelow, who directed her artistic interests towards type design. She was influenced, too, by Gerard Unger, who taught digital typography there for a term. She did some freelance work for Bigelow and Holmes, and atended a course in digital typography at Stanford set up by Bigelow with support from Donald Knuth. Her first type was an accomplished one, a sharply-drawn, slightly inclined informal face called Mirarae (1984), which won first prize in a typerface competition sponsored by the Japanese typesetting firm of Morisawa. She began working part-time for Adobe, and joined the staff full-time in 1988.”