Alexander Girard

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Alexander Girard Alexander Girard (b.New York, 1907, d. 1993) was an architect, interior designer, furniture designer, industrial designer, and a textile designer. His most successful project was the colourful design of the planes and identity for Braniff International Airways in 1965. Typefaces honoring him or influenced by his designs include: Ben Kiel's Girard Sky (2009). Girard Sky is based on Alexander Girard's original typeface for his redesign of Braniff Airways. Working with the original drawings for the photoset typeface found in the Girard archive, the design was revived as part of the Alexander Girard collection. Followed by Girard Slab (2009). At House Industries, we find Girard Sky and Slab, but also Girard Script, Girard Display and the curly Girard Sansusie. Girard was digitized at House Industries by Ben Kiel, Ken Barber, and Laura Meseguer. Girard Sansusie (House Industries), designed by Laura Meseguer, who writes: In 2005, House Industries invited me to digitize the lettering used to announce the textile designs that Alexander Girard did for Herman Miller. Girard Sansusie is a reinterpretation of this design, based on the few letters that were available to me. Girard Sansusie combines a folk flair with a lettering style evident throughout the Girard oeuvre, most notably on his 1955 Herman Miller fabric catalogue. Alexander Girard was a master at utilizing lettering and type as practical, illustrative and readable elements.	EXTERNAL LINKS Alexander Girard [Designer info] MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Type scene in New York ⦿ Curly typefaces ⦿