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Maxim Zhukov

Maxim Zhukov (b. Moscow, 1943) was a typographic coordinator for the United Nations in New York from 1977 until 2003. Solomon Telingater was one of his mentors. Early on, he designed some typefaces such as Meandr (1972). He taught at the Moscow Printing Institute in 1984-1985, and is now affiliated with the Type Directors Club and ATypI. He teaches a course on world scripts at Parsons School of Design, and a course on advanced typography at The Cooper Union, both in New York. He is interested in multilingual typography. Alternate URL. He co-authored (with George Sadek, who died in 2007) Typography: Polyglot (1991) and its second edition, Typographia Polyglotta (1997). Bio in Russian. Maxim lives in the Bronx.

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