“My job was to be a cleavage retoucher,” he recalled in a video interview with the Type Directors Club. “I was very good with an airbrush and buying doilies in the 5 and 10,” he said, strategically placed doilies being key to the cleavage removal process. Mr. Benguiat went on to more sophisticated work. He became one of the go-to designers of the second half of the last century, especially in matters of typography. His hand was behind more than 600 typefaces, several of which bear his name (which is pronounced ben-GAT).

Source: International New York Times October 17, 2020 00:11 UTC