Akira Kobayashi

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  Designed by Akira Kobayashi, type director at Linotype, the Eurostile® Next family is the newest of five typeface families added to the Linotype Library.Part of the Linotype PlatinumÔ Collection, Eurostile Next is an enhanced and expanded version of the widely used Eurostile typeface family.Like the original, Eurostile Next uses open, squared letterforms to create a modern aesthetic.The CosmiquaÔ family, also from Kobayashi, exudes a lively, youthful feel inspired by advertising from the 1950s.
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  Chahine, Kobayashi and Frutiger are also credited with other typefaces announced this year, including the Frutiger Serif family, designed by Kobayashi and Frutiger, and the Palatino® Arabic design, created by Chahine and Hermann Zapf, who designed the original Palatino typeface more than 50 years ago.
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  Chahine, Kobayashi and Frutiger are also credited with other typefaces announced this year, including the Frutiger Serif family, designed by Kobayashi and Frutiger, and the Palatino® Arabic design, created by Chahine and Hermann Zapf, who designed the original Palatino typeface more than 50 years ago.

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  Published on: 6/5/2008    Last Visited: 8/15/2008  

  The Linotype team and Adrian Frutiger at the beginning of the celebration (from left to right: Linotype's Type Director Akira Kobayashi, former Managing Director of Linotype Bruno Steinert, current Managing Director Frank Wildenberg, Adrian Frutiger, and Marketing Director Otmar Hoefer)
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  Akira Kobayashi (left) and one of Adrian Frutiger's brothers

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  The new Fontek faces include ITC TremorÔ by Alan Dempsey, ITC GemaÔ by Claudio Rocha, ITC RoswellÔ by Jim Parkinson, ITC ScarboroughÔ by Akira Kobayashi and ITC SimranÔ by Satwinder Sehmi.
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  A pair of ornaments, ITC Japanese GardenÔ and ITC Seven TreasuresÔ, were created by Akira Kobayashi and the new DesignFont ITC ShadowettesÔ is the work of Taouffik Semmad.
  
  The release of ITC TyfaÔ could be considered a happy by-product of the rusting away of the Iron Curtain.
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  "Today's magazine pages, advertising, and graphics require a more compact typeface," says Akira Kobayashi, designer of ITC ScarboroughÔ."One can easily name a number of condensed sans-serifs, but how about script types?"So Kobayashi, who also designed the flexible serif text family ITC WoodlandÔ, borrowed his own handwriting for ITC Scarborough, a narrow, slightly slanted display face with many roman letterforms (especially in the capital letters), but with the flourishes and overall style of a cursive."Because it is a script style, words set in Scarborough appear dynamic," says Kobayashi.
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  ITC Japanese GardenÔ is one of a pair of ornaments by Tokyo-based designer Akira Kobayashi.The images in ITC Japanese Garden are, as the name suggests, mostly floral or herbaceous, derived from designs used in Japanese indigo stencil dyeing."In ITC Japanese Garden," Kobayashi says, "I tried to create a set of type fleurons that are very familiar to a Japanese eye, but not too exotic to people in other countries."Several of the designs fit together seamlessly in repeating patterns; others work either together or as isolated ornaments, a flexibility that also characterizes traditional Western type fleurons."The original illustrations," notes Kobayashi, "were mostly cut from white paper squares, about two by two inches in size, and were simply scanned and traced.That is why there are few smooth curves and perfectly straight lines in the illustrations.I simply liked the ragged textures of them."
  
  Akira Kobayashi's second ornament font, ITC Seven TreasuresÔ, is meant to be used for patterns and textures.

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  Published on: 10/6/2008    Last Visited: 5/28/2008  

  The Frutiger® Serif design is the new font family by Adrian Frutiger and Akira Kobayashi.
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  Now, some 51 years later, Linotype's type director, Akira Kobayashi, with support from Adrian Frutiger, has adapted and expanded Meridien to create the Frutiger Serif family.
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  Given his special appreciation for the metal version of Meridien, Kobayashi began Frutiger Serif from some of the earliest, letterpress specimens.

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  Published on: 7/28/2002    Last Visited: 3/31/2003  

  Akira KobayashiHis type designs have won numerous international awards.
  
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  Akira Kobayashi attended Musashino Art University in Tokyo (1979-83) and took evening classes in calligraphy at the London College of Printing (1989-90).He worked as a Type designer at Sha-Ken Co., Ltd., a manufacturer of phototypesetting machines, then joined Jiyu-Kobo, Ltd. where he designed and digitized the Japanese font Hiragino Mincho and its Latin companion Hiragino Roman.From there he went to work for TypeBank Co., Ltd. where he designed Latin alphabets to accompany all of TypeBank's Japanese digital fonts.From mid-1997 to 2001, Kobayashi worked as a freelance type designer.His type designs have won numerous international awards, including the Kyrillitsa'99 type competition, the New York Type Directors Club type design competitions of 1998, 1999, 2000, "Best of Category" and "Best of Show" at the U&lc type design competition in 1998, and First Prize in the text category in Linotype Library's Digital Type Design Contest in 2000.In addition to his Adobe® Original OpenType® family, Calcite Pro, he has designed many popular typefaces, including Skid Row, ITC Woodland, ITC Scarborough, ITC Japanese Garden, ITC Seven Treasures, ITC Luna, ITC Silvermoon, FF Acanthus, ITC Magnifico Daytime, ITC Magnifico Nighttime, and ITC Vineyard.In 2001, he became Type Director at Linotype Library GmBH in Bad Homburg, Germany.
  
  Photo of Akira Kobayashi, with his son Syuhei by Yumiko Kobayashi.

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  Published on: 5/9/2008    Last Visited: 8/15/2008  

  Linotype is proud to release Frutiger® Serif, a new typeface family from Adrian Frutiger and Akira Kobayashi.
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  Linotype's Type Director, Akira Kobayashi, began by returning to prints made from the original metal type version of Meridien.In his opinion, the phototype and digital versions had been drawn too wide; the original phototype and digital Meridien had been optimized for 10,12 point text, but even these sizes are not really small enough!

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  Published on: 3/17/2008    Last Visited: 8/15/2008  

  Working closely with Adrian Frutiger, Linotype's Type Director Akira Kobayashi expanded the original metal type version of Meridien into a new digital family of 20 variants.
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  While previous digitizations inadvertently added unintentional distortions to the original design, Linotype's Akira Kobayashi has succeeded in bringing Aldo Novarese's vision into the 21st century.
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  Cosmiqua is a lively serif family from Linotype's Type Director, Akira Kobayashi.Inspired by advertising design from the 1950s, Kobayashi began to closely examine his favorite letterforms from this genre, particularly those headline faces that appear to live in the space between formal italic types and casual handwriting.These letterforms exude a certain hope for the future, and also appear to be a little odd, or kitschy, to our 21st century eyes.Yet the serifs and terminals on these letters do not let go of one's attention.On further examination, Kobayashi found these same traits in even older faces, particularly 19th century English advertising types.Assuming the spirit of these diverse sources into himself (one typeface in particular, Miller & Richard's Caledonian Italic, was quite influential) Kobayashi drew Cosmiqua.Cosmiqua is an amalgamation of the French "cosmique," meaning cosmic, and "Antiqua," the German term for serif type.In other words, this is a cosmic serif face; a typeface for the future, as the future was seen in the 1950s.Kobayashi first drew the Italic weights of Cosmiqua, refining his favorite lowercase forms (x and y), as well as creating sublime ball terminals on the A and N. Only later did he move on to the upright, Roman forms.
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  Nami, the Japanese word for "wave," is the latest collaboration between Adrian Frutiger and Linotype's Type Director, Akira Kobayashi.
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  Revisiting the project in 2006, Akira Kobayashi reworked the concept into a working family of three typefaces.
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  Akira Kobayashi designed the Metro Office family after the model of the original sans serif family produced by W. A. Dwiggins and Mergenthaler Linotype's design studio during the late 1920s and 1930s.
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  Akira Kobayashi designed the Neuzeit Office family after the model of the original sans serif family Neuzeit S, which was produced by D. Stempel AG and the Linotype's design studio in 1966.
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  Akira Kobayashi designed the Times Europa Office family after the model of the original serif family produced by Walter Tracy and the Linotype's design studio in 1974.
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  Akira Kobayashi designed the Trump Mediaeval Office family after the model of the original serif family produced by Georg Trump in 1954.

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  Published on: 2/27/2008    Last Visited: 8/15/2008  

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  Published on: 11/29/2007    Last Visited: 8/15/2008  

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  Published on: 5/20/2008    Last Visited: 5/20/2008  

  The new 20-font offering was designed by Akira Kobayashi, type director at Linotype, and Adrian Frutiger, whose original Frutiger sans serif design ranks among the best selling fonts of all time from the Linotype® Library.
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  "I have a deep appreciation for the metal version of Meriden, which is quite different than the digital version," said Kobayashi, who with the support of Frutiger redrew and expanded the Meridien design to create Frutiger Serif.

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