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Seymour Chwast

Graphic designer born in New York in 1931. Worked with Milton Glaser at Push Pin Studios in New York from 1954. Many of his fonts were sold by Photo Lettering.

He designed

  • Chwast Buffalo Black Condensed (1981, Linotype). Not my favorite black-weight face, oddly serifed. Chwast Buffalo provided the inspiration for Lackawanna Weed (2007, Nick Curtis).
  • Artone (1968, PhotoLettering Inc: psychedelic lettering). Artone was digitized as Loose Caboose NF (2007, Nick Curtis). Iza W's Fofucha family (2007) is based on Chwast's work.
  • Blimp (1970, from issue c84 of Push Pin Graphic). Blimp was the inspiration for Weedy Beasties NF (2007, Nick Curtis) and Weedy Beastless NF (2007, Nick Curtis). See also this Pin Push poster by Alessandra Bautista (2013).
  • Film Sense (1969, Photolettering: with Milton Glaser). Revivals include Newsenseby Adrian Candela (2013).
  • In Ray Cruz's font Bouncing Checks Layers (2014), we find 40 fun hand-0drawn dingbats by Seymour Chwast.

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file name: Adrian Candela Newsense 2013 basedon Milton Glaser Filmsense


file name: Adrian Candela Newsense 2013 basedon Milton Glaser Filmsense


file name: Adrian Candela Newsense 2013 basedon Milton Glaser Filmsense


file name: Adrian Candela Newsense 2013 basedon Milton Glaser Filmsense


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file name: Ray Cruz Seymour Chwast Bouncing Checks Layers 2014


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file name: Iza W Fofucha 2007 after Seymour Chwast Artone 1968


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file name: Nick Curtis Loose Caboose N F 2007 after Seymour Chwast Artone 1968





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