FUSE Designers

Tobias Frere-Jones is an American typographer based in NYC. He graduated from Rhode Island School of Design with a Graphic Design degree in 1992 and joined the Font Bureau in Boston. It was there that he created some of the most well-known fonts of the company including Interstate, Poynter Oldstyle, and Poynter Gothic. In total, he has designed of 700 font faces for retail, clients, and his own experimentation! Top clients have included The Boston Globe and The New York Times and his work has been featured in numerous leading art journals.

Website: http://www.frerejones.com/
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobias_Frere-Jones
http://www.frerejones.com/about/


Gerard Unger was born in the Netherlands in 1942. He studied graphic design and typography at the Gerrit Rietvald Academy in Amsterdam from 1963-1967 and has gone on to work in many aspects of the field, as a free-lance designer, a teacher and professor at various universities, and a type designer. He has done work in a majority of arenas from stamps and coins to magazines, newspapers, and books, to corporate branding and identities. One of his books has been translated into 5 different languages. He is now based in Brussels, Belgium and is a frequent lecturer on type design and other design topics.

Website: http://www.gerardunger.com/
Source: http://www.gerardunger.com/biography/biography.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Unger


Barry Deck is an American designer from Iowa, born in 1962. He graduated from Northern Illinois University in 1986. After pursuing his masters degree at the California Institute of Arts, he moved to New York and was recognized for his radical new ideas in the field of type design. He has been known for his distorted typefaces that play with and blur ideas of legibility. In 1995, he established his own company and has worked for companies such as Pepsi, Reebok, and Nickelodeon.

Website: http://www.barrydeck.com/
Source: http://www.identifont.com/show?1HV


Rick Vermeulen was born in the Netherlands in 1950. He graduated with a degree in graphic design from the Rotterdam Academy in 1972. After college, he often did work for the publisher, Bert Bakker, and worked with Rotterdam's Graphic Workshop, who worked to organize cultural events such as the Rotterdam Film Festival. From 1978-1982, he worked for the magazine Hard Werken, with a small group of other designers. Eventually, the group established their own studio under the same name. Vermeulen moved to Los Angeles in 1993 and continued work for Hard Werken. In 1995, he moved back to the Netherlands. More recently, he has designed typefaces for FUSE and has done collaboration work as well as freelance work for a number of clients.

Source: http://www.eyemagazine.com/feature/article/reputations-rick-vermeulen

Paul Elliman is a Brittish designer, born in 1961. He is well-known for his typeface Found Font, which is an ongoing project to create a typeface using found objects such as plastic, wire, and metal. He is also known for his font, Alphabet, which he designed for FUSE. He first came to fame for his work with the Brittish jazz magazine, Wire. He doesn't produce a lot of work, but the work he does is always well received.

Source: http://www.eyemagazine.com/feature/article/other-spaces

Anna-Lisa Schoenecker is a designer based in Mainz, Germany. She received her masters in Communication Design from the Royal College of Art. Her career began with Pentagram where she worked on editorial and corporate design. Her work for FUSE consists of her typeface White No Sugar and she has been recognized for her work in Women of Graphic Design 1890-2012. She now lives and works in Germany and is a teacher of Information Design and Interactive Media at the University of Applied Sciences in Mainz.

Website: http://www.schoenecker.com/
Source: http://www.schoenecker.com/index.php?/in-brief/about-me/