21/10/2020
https://www.zacarias.com/blog/interview-with-ed-benguiat Ed Benguiat passed away on October 15th 2020 aged 92. I had the pleasure of studying Typeface Design at the School of Visual Arts with him in 1999. His classes were an incredible mix of design and personal stories. Together with Trudy Schnitzler, we interviewed him that year in New York, where he told us about his first job as a "cleavage retoucher", why he never used the W and his love for the letter Q. Here is the interview.
Back in 1999, while in New York, I had the pleasure of studying Typeface Design at the School of Visual Arts with Edward Benguiat, a design legend and a true character. A few months after the class, my colleague and friend, Trudy Schnitzler and I interviewed him for Box, an Argentinian design magazi