In his free time, he decided to finish the design with ink and white paint. The sketch made it into a presentation by Tom Carnase, but was rejected by the client.ĭuring a rare slow day at the office, Di Spigna decided to develop and sketch the remaining capitals, adding a lower case and some alternate characters. In 1969 he joined Lubalin, Smith & Carnase, designing in the same year a number of typefaces, Di Spigna Roman among the most successful.ĭi Spigna’s first published typeface, Serif Gothic (released by ITC), started as a scribble sketch for a French shirt company, HECHTER CHEMISE, a client of Herb Lubalin. He put it on a strip of film for Typositor film typesetting and almost immediately, it was picked up by Herb Lubalin in several client designs.
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Just after graduating from Pratt, Di Spigna discovered his love for professional type design, starting with ‘Fattoni’ in 1968. He returned as a professor years later, eventually achieving tenure and receiving the institute-wide Distinguished Professor Award. Di Spigna first attended Pratt in his youth, graduating first from New York City Community College in 1964 and then from Pratt in 1967.
Tony Di Spigna and Bill Hilson met at Pratt Institute, where both were teaching in the Graduate Communication Design department. Now, after a dozen years distributing Di Spigna’s meticulously-crafted typefaces, they’ve chosen to join 33 other top foundries in Type Network.ĭi Spigna showing the process with ink and white paint After independently illustrious careers, Tony Di Spigna and Bill Hilson founded Thinstroke in 2009.
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