AIGA New York

Exhibition dates March 27 - May 30 2003

Gallery hours:
11:00 AM to 6:00 PM Monday to Thursday
11:00 AM to 5:00 PM Friday

Typographically Speaking
The Art of Matthew Carter
Exhibition dates
March 27 - May 30 2003
AIGA National Design Center

Matthew Carter’s designs are ubiquitously present in the visual landscape of contemporary graphic design. He commands a wider audience for his work than most artists ever dream of. Open a book catalogue from any publisher and you will see ITC Galliard. Browse a newsstand and some version of Miller News will pop into view. Go online and you’ll find Verdana everywhere on the web. Use a reference book. Find a telephone number. Buy a ticket for an event. Read an announcement in a digital source. Carter’s work pervades the media through which the messages you receive are being conveyed. His letterforms can be found, like the basic atoms of graphic language, in nearly every area of print and electronic communication.

—Johanna Drucker, Typographic Intelligence:
The Work of Matthew Carter

Matthew Carter is a principal of Carter & Cone Type, Inc., an independent digital typefoundry in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is an internationally renowned type designer with over 50 typecase families to his credit. During his expansive career, Carter has pioneered all aspects of typography in its evolution, continuously pushing the creative and technological envelope as it relates to typography and visual communications. He has many awards to his credit among them the AIGA Gold Medal (1995), the Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design (1996) and the Type Directors Club Medal (1997).