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Category:Type Designers
Category:Typographers
Eiichi Kono began his working life in the photo optical industry in Japan, and became fascinated by the universality of the Latin alphabet. This brought him, in 1974, to study at the London College of Printing and on to the Royal College of Art for Information Graphics, linked with the Readability Print Research Unit resume CV. His first paid job was a White Paper diagram for the London Clearing Banks! Then the redesign of Johnston Underground, known as New Johnston for text setting as well as display use, and the BT telephone directory space saving and legibility feasibility study. He has taught typography at Middlesex, and been engaged in much graphic design work after essay writing assistance, corporate identity, publishing design (Pearson, The Economist). He is currently directing a team developing optimal legibility for Japanese onscreen fonts, for Microsoft.
Category:Typographers
Eiichi Kono began his working life in the photo optical industry in Japan, and became fascinated by the universality of the Latin alphabet. This brought him, in 1974, to study at the London College of Printing and on to the Royal College of Art for Information Graphics, linked with the Readability Print Research Unit resume CV. His first paid job was a White Paper diagram for the London Clearing Banks! Then the redesign of Johnston Underground, known as New Johnston for text setting as well as display use, and the BT telephone directory space saving and legibility feasibility study. He has taught typography at Middlesex, and been engaged in much graphic design work after essay writing assistance, corporate identity, publishing design (Pearson, The Economist). He is currently directing a team developing optimal legibility for Japanese onscreen fonts, for Microsoft.