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"Recent Acquisitions: Digital Typography," an installation highlighting five graphic works exploring post-modernist trends in typography, will be on view from Sept. 3 through fall 2010 at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum.
Organized by Gail Davidson, curator and head of the Drawings, Prints and Graphic Design department, the installation includes expressive typographic work developed by graphic designers as a response to modernism's rigid and impersonal sans serif type.
This movement toward new fonts can be seen as early as the 1960s, and the introduction of new desktop-design technologies in the early 1980s, especially the Apple Macintosh machine and subsequent software programs, including Fontographer (1986), QuarkXPress (1986), Adobe Illustrator (1986-87), galvanized this trend by allowing graphic designers more freedom to engage directly with letterforms in a new way and to invent lively, vernacular typefaces. /source: http://www.dexigner.com/