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Michael Harvey (lettering artist)

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In 2012, he published under his own 47 Editions imprint Adventures With Letters, an extensively illustrated memoir of his working life.
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and later, with Andy Benedek for his own foundry, Finefonts. His inscriptional work included a long collaboration with
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In 2022, the Lettering Arts Centre in Suffolk, England, mounted a retrospective of Harvey's work.
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www.finefonts.com, fonts designed by Michael Harvey and Andy Benedek
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Lettering design: form and skill in the design and use of letters
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Adventures With Letters, Harvey's memoir of his working life
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He designed a number of typefaces, including Zephyr,
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MBE
lettering
type design
National Gallery
Eric Gill
Joseph Cribb
Reynolds Stone
Heinemann
The Bodley Head
Cambridge University Press
Adobe Systems
The Monotype Corporation
Ian Hamilton Finlay
Reading University
James Mosley
Andreas
Ellington
Double Crown Club
ATypI
Letter Exchange
"Michael Harvey: Type designer inspired by Gill"
Archived
"Michael Harvey obituary"
"In Defence of the Roman Letter"
"Michael Harvey's Life of Letters"
Archived


"Cover to cover: Lettering Arts Centre displays Michael Harvey's iconic design"
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