User:Davidbergsland

Typographer, author, font designer

As a hippie in the late 1960s, and a graduate of the University of Minnesota with a BFA in Printmaking, I have been an artist and designer since 1967 (as far as I can recall in that distant past).

I actually started my design career working for an occult publisher in St. Paul. I also spent several wasted years as an ego-maniacal heathen fine artist until I found my true calling as a creative called by God to design and write. I didn't meet the Lord until 1974, but that's another story for another time. Anything beautiful and truthful I have done came from the Holy Spirit, by grace.

Graphic Designer since 1979

I began in West Virginia under an art director named Pik who is still an inspiration. The man could draw marker roughs that were accurate enough to spec type and take measurements—and draw them as fast as I can write. This is where I began falling in love with type and typography.

After three years freelancing in Albuquerque I became the art director for Albuquerque Printing, one of the largest commercial printers in the city.

Teacher since 1991

After nearly 8 year as art director, I was given the opportunity to teach commercial printing at a large community college, Albuquerque TVI. It quickly developed into one of the first all digital printing/publishing degrees in the country.

Writer since 1994

After four years of developing digital publishing course materials, Delmar Publishing, out of Thomson Learning now Cengage, asked me to write Printing in a Digital World. I wrote six books for them on digital printing, FreeHand, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, and typography.

Font designer since 1994

As a new owner of Fontographer, frustrated with the fonts available, I designed all the fonts used in Printing in a Digital World. First Makambo, then MyFonts asked to sell me fonts. Monotype began selling them on all of its sites a few years later.

On-Demand Publisher since 2002

I started releasing my new course materials through Lulu in late 2002 or early 2003. My publishing house, Radiqx Press, went full-time in 2009. I am currently writing font design books using FontLab and Fontographer, on-demand publishing books, and bible studies.