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David James

David James met Gareth Hague in 1990, and worked together designing record sleeves for bands such as Soul II Soul (Club Classics Volume 1), Neneh Cherry (Buffalo Stance) and Boy George (Tense Nervous Headache). Increasingly their designs featured custom designed typefaces and logos (System 7, Wynton Marsalis, One Dove). Projects for independent magazines Road and A Be Sea also combined art directed photography and custom type design. They formed Alias in 1996 to design and market their typefaces. Alias also undertakes commissions for custom typeface and logotype design, services include designing custom type and digitising and amending existing typefaces.

With Garrett Hague, [T-26] co-designer of AES, August. At Alias (a company he founded with Garrett Hague in London), he made Enabler (1995), also available from [T-26], which later evolved into Progress (2003). Designer of FatZZHandwriting (2002, his own free handwriting font). Identifont link. Klingspor link.

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