David Berlow entered the type industry in 1978 as a letter designer for the respected Mergenthaler, Linotype, Stempel, and Haas type foundries.
He joined the newly formed digital type supplier, Bitstream, Inc. in 1982. After Berlow left Bitstream in 1989, he founded The Font Bureau with Roger Black. Font Bureau has developed more than 200 new and revised type designs for The Chicago Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, Entertainment Weekly, Newsweek, Esquire, Rolling Stone, Hewlett Packard and others, with OEM work for Apple Computer Inc. and Microsoft Corporation.
The Font Bureau Retail Library consists mostly of original designs and now includes over 340 typefaces.
Berlow is a member of the New York Type Directors Club and the Association Typographique Internationale, and remains active in typeface design.
© Photo: 2008, Marc Eckardt
