Chris Costello, Papyrus and My Poster

Papyrus is a contemporary font that has been broadly used in various art works for different types of occassions, due to its neat yet stylish look and great legibility.

The poster is sort of a typography study in Papyrus, merely composed of all letters of the alphabet and some numbers and characters.

More info for the font creator: Chris Costello

Chris Costello graduated from Dutchess Community College in Poughkeepsie and received an Associates Degree in Commercial Art, in 1979. While in school, he worked at Wambach Communications Group, in Rhinebeck, New York as a part-time graphic designer and was hired full-time after his graduation. During this period of his life, he was also very involved with music and played bass with several bands in the area. He eventually took a chance to follow this dream—he quit his job and joined a rock band that toured the southern U.S.

In 1982, he moved to South Florida to attend the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, an art institute located directly on the beach. He won some awards and two scholarship nominations then decided to take a semester off and work in the field for a while. However, his job was so great, that he just kept on working and never went back.

Chris Costello worked at Group 3hree Advertising in Pompano Beach, doing graphic design, production and illustration. After about a year, he left this full-time position and went back to work for the same company, making twice as much money as a freelancer. He figured this was the way to go, so he hired himself out to ad agencies and design studios throughout South Florida. He liked the freelance idea because he could work on a lot of different projects and still had some time to hang on the beach.

After tiring of his vacation lifestyle, he moved to Boston, Massachusetts and worked for Brewster Advertising in Cambridge as an Art Director. After three years, he felt that he acquired enough experience to go off on his own again, so he left to pursue a career as a freelance illustrator and, a professional bass player. For the next six years, he had the time of his life. During the day, he worked at home, illustrating for high profile book publishers and ad agencies throughout the country. His nights and weekends were spent traveling to resorts and colleges all over New England to play music.

Costello became the Art Director for DPI, a book publisher in Woburn, MA in the year 1995. There, he learned computer graphics, web design, management and all about the publishing industry.

Three years later, he left DPI and became Senior Graphic Designer for The DeWolfe Companies in Lexington, MA. In 2002, Dewolfe was aquired by NRT and merged with Coldwell Banker Hunneman to form Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage where he was promoted to Creative Director in thier marketing department.

In 2003, he recieved a Bachelors Degree in Graphic Design and Visual Communication at Northeastern Universty in Boston.

Chris Costello currently lives in the Boston area with his wife, Anita, and his two daughters, Sheriden and Emersen. He still gets to hang on the beach every now and then… but mostly then.

Designing typefaces is a labor of love for him. After handlettered book and magazine titles for several major publishers, he thought it would be cool to produce complete character sets from some of these designs for all of creatives out there. Except for Letterpress Text, every font is inspired by his own imagination and most are inked by hand before they are digitized.

The complete list of type fonts that Chris Costello designed is as follows:
Blackstone, Blackstone Italic, Letterpress Text, Letterpress Text Italic, Letterpress Text Bold, Letterpress Text Bold Italic, Mirage, Papyrus, Virus, Virus Lethal

Chris Costello created the font Papyrus in 1983. This unusual roman typeface merges effectively the elegance of a traditional roman letterform with the hand-crafted look of highly skilled calligraphy. It includes an extra set of initialing capitals to enhance its unique style.

Papyrus is part of the Linotype Library. Papyrus is a trademark of Esselte Letraset Limited.
The font Papyrus can be downloaded at:
http://www.linotype.com/14649/papyrusregular-font.html

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