October 2004 — Senior Design Cyrus Highsmith and Matthew Carter are interviewed for Fontshop’s magazine 96, issue #6. Highsmith discusses his Amira and Prensa families while Carter reviews his illustrious career and explains why “traditionalism is of no use.”

October 7th New York — Font Bureau president David Berlow joined Type designers Matthew Carter, Tobias Frere-Jones, Jonathan Hoefler, Ken Barber, and Tal Leming at “Making Faces,” a round table typographic discussion hosted by Society of Publication Designers and FIT. David Matt of Men’s Journal moderated:

• the difference between type founding and type design
• which came first: foundries making large type families or designers demanding larger families?
• how fonts are named
• custom typography
• how and when to involve a type designer into a design project
• designing type for difficult printing conditions
• the future of OpenType, 1400 ligatures?!
• sneak previews of ...

October 2004 Boston — Senior Designer Cyrus Highsmith was invited to speak about typography and legibility to the journalism department, advocating clarity in design and visual hierarchy working in tandem with editorial content.

October 2004 — Font Bureau is featured in German design magazine PAGE’s “Editorial Types” article.

September 30th – October 2nd, San Jose. Font Bureau General Manager Sam Berlow moderates “How Do You Choose Typography?” panel of leading designers Theo Fels of Danilo Black, Kristen Powell of Creative Circle, and Deborah Withey of The Virginia-Pilot at the annual gathering of Society of News Designers, hosted by the San Jose Mercury News. The panel compared their process, where they start and how they compare type catering to a newspapers’ readership.

Font Bureau founder Roger Black ...

Font Bureau’s Fall 2004 News Specimen was also unveiled, highlighting outstanding redesigns from our clients and previewing two upcoming Font Bureau families ...

September 29th – October 3rd Prague — Font Bureau Designers (past and past alike) gather for the annual international typographic gathering Atypi. President David Berlow, JF Porchez, Gerard Unger, and John D. Berry present “Daily Type,” a lecture of newspaper typography. Senior Designer Cyrus Highsmith discusses revamping Rhode Island School of Design’s Typography I curriculum and participates in the education panel along with Erik van Blokland. Christian Schwartz profiles his “Accidental Typeface” commissioned for the Houston Chronicle.

September 17th — Font Bureau Senior Designer Cyrus Highsmith is expert witness to Kevin Drinkard and Dave Moniz’ “Memos debate eclipses content” article in USA Today. Highsmith offered insight into the authenticity of debated presidential military records as the media discusses forensic typography.

August 2004 — Danilo Black’s redesign of Natural Health was featured in Dynamic Graphics magazine as one of “15 Launches on Target.” Key to the revamp’s success are Font Bureau’s “rival siblings” sanserif Amira, which was created for the redesign, and serif Prensa families.

July 28th, 2004 — Senior Designer Cyrus Highsmith, a frequent speaker on typographic education, remembers his early days at Font Bureau apprenticing under President David Berlow. His recollection was published on AIGA’s “Design Heroes” forum. Valuable lessons were learned, and sheep never looked the same afterwards.

July, 2004 Brno — Senior Designer Cyrus Highsmith’s Amira received the Special Award for Type Creation in the Brno Bienniele 2004 competition, Font Bureau designer Christian Schwartz also received recognition for his Amplitude, and upcoming Farnham.