Christian Schwartz

Another type designer based in New York, Christian Schwartz has much in common with H & FJ having also won the 2007 Prix Charles Peignot for outstanding contribution to type design. He also worked under Tobias Frere-Jones at Font Bureau as an intern in 1996. Famous (in the design world) for creating 14 families of egyptian in the re-design of The Guardian. His fonts are beautiful and hard-working, winning also the black pencil award from D & AD. "Using a typeface with an extremely wide range of weights gave us the flexibility to just use one typeface throughout the whole newspaper. That is one of the things that, I think, gives the Guardian a very special flavour." Mark Porter Creative Director of The Guardian.

Also known to collaborate with various designers, Schwartz was trained at Pittsburg's Carnegie Mellon University in communication design. After this he worked at Meta Design Berlin developing typefaces for Volkswagen and in particular the typographic sytem for Deutsche Bahn rail network. This he designed in collaboration with Erik Spiekermann, while working at Meta Design. The design for Deutchse Bahn won a gold medal from the German Design Council (Rat für Formgebung).

He has a love of reading and fashion "I try to keep an eye on what’s going on right now, not just in graphic design but also in fashion, music, television – serious culture and pop culture, all at once – so I buy more magazines than I care to admit" A mix of attention to detail but with Erik Spiekermann functionality thrown in makes this type designer one of the best in th world.