#cyrus highsmith

[guy60660]

Cyrus Highsmith | Letterform

[drawdownbooks]

“I have always loved to draw. When I first encountered type design, I discovered a very pure form of drawing. It’s about contour, and edges, and, most of all, shapes. Black and white shapes. For me, this is drawing distilled down to its essence.” —Cyrus Highsmith

In 2015, American typeface designer and educator Cyrus Highsmith was awarded the prestigious Gerrit Noordzij Prize. Awarded every three years, the Prize recognizes type designers and typographers for extraordinary contributions to the fields of type design, typography, and type education. This book was published on the occasion of the 2018 prize exhibition which featured Highsmith’s work.

Highsmith is known for his original approach to drawing letterforms—as well as his work as an illustrator, author, and teacher—and this publication shares many spreads from his sketchbooks while tracing his career and approach to typography.

With essays by Indra Kupferschmid, David Berlow, and Cyrus Highsmith, and a previously published interview of Highsmith by Jan Middendrop.

Designed by Erik van Blokland and Peter Verheul Published by De Buitenkant, 2018 Softcover, 64 pages, exposed sewn binding, b&w and full color images, 6.5 × 9.5 inches Available at Draw Down Books

[meppublished]

More work from Winkreative in London.  I've been busy working with them on several of their custom publishing projects.  This one for Lexus Magazine. 

[ianfrancis]

Cyrus Highsmith's talk "Similar But Different" at Cooper Union.

(7/15/2013)

[ianfrancis]

This is going to be so sick. 

[rm801]

Today I received a gift in the mail from one of my professors, Cyrus Highsmith. He came into the type shop where I monitor with his daughter, and I set up some wood type for them to print. Cyrus decided to return the favor with a super sweet print of his own. This'll definitely be going on the wall in my apartment in SF! (The plaster hand cast is part of my degree project and not part of the gift, I needed something to weigh down the paper because it was windy today.)