EYE-LIKEY

                                      A visit with the BOLD graphic works of,

                CYRUS HIGHSMITH

                                                Graphic Designer & Illustrator 

                       Providence, RI

ABOUT

Cyrus Highsmith is a senior designer at Boston’s Font Bureau. With his contemporary body of work, he has established himself as one of the truly original new voices in American type design. He’s somewhat of a designers’ designer — many of his peers hold him in awe for the sheer audacity of his letterforms. After graduating with honors from RISD, Cyrus Highsmith joined Font Bureau where he continues to work as a senior designer developing new typefaces. He has taught letter drawing in the Graphic Design department since 2000 and also leads workshops and lectures frequently in the US, Mexico, Europe and Japan. Highsmith is known for his original approach to drawing letterforms. His designs have been specified for diverse platforms including Rolling Stone, starwars.com and the Ford Motor Company. He has also created custom typefaces for clients such as The Wall Street Journal, Martha Stewart Living, La Prensa Gráfica, ESPN, Men’s Health and El Universal. In addition to working as a type designer, Highsmith is an illustrator and author. In 2012 when Font Bureau published his first book, Inside Paragraphs: Typographic Fundamentals, Matthew Carter wrote, “There is nothing you need to understand about using type that’s not in this book.”