Lighting Design
2015
Illustration
2021
Furniture Design
2002
Speculative Design
2022
Textiles Design
2019
Furniture Design
2007
Engineering Design
1995
Costume Design
2022
Environmental Engineering
2010
Interaction Design
2009
Illustration
1981
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1987
Costume and Set Design
2005
Textiles
2015
Graphic Design
2011
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2002
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2017
Product Design
1998
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2006
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2011
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2004
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2006
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1981
Photo of  Matthew Carter

Matthew Carter CBE is a type designer with sixty years’ experience in typographic technologies, ranging from hand-cut punches to computer fonts. After a long association with the Linotype companies, he was a co-founder of Bitstream Inc. in 1981, a digital type foundry where he worked for ten years. Matthew is now a principal of Carter & Cone Type Inc., designers and producers of original typefaces, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Matthew's type designs include ITC Galliard, Snell Roundhand and Shelley scripts, Helvetica Compressed, Olympian (for newspaper text), Bell Centennial (for the US telephone directories), ITC Charter; and faces for Greek, Cyrillic and Devanagari. For Carter & Cone, he designed Mantinia, Sophia, Elephant, Big Caslon, Alisal and Miller. He designed Georgia, Verdana, Tahoma, Nina and Sitka for Microsoft, and Carter Sans for Monotype Imaging. Most recently Matthew was co-designer of Role, a superfamily of typefaces, for Morisawa.

Photo of  Matthew Carter
Shelley Volante, 1972
Shelley Volante
1972
Bell Centennial, 1978
Bell Centennial
1978
Georgia, 1996-97
Georgia
1996-97
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2013
Interior Design
2005
Fashion Design
2013
Fashion Design
2023
Illustration
2023
Architecture
2006
Production Design
2009
Production Design
2009
Architecture
2010
Product Design
2015
Lighting Design
2019
Regenerative Design
2022
Film Production Design
2004
Interior Design
2021
Textile Design
2006
Theatre + Film Design
1997
Graphic Design
1994
Illustration
2018
Theatre Design
2018
TV + Theatre Design
1975
Theatre Design
1989
Critical Design
2021
Landscape + Gardens
2023
Engineering Design
2005
Textile Design
1984
Designing with Sound
2012
Graphic Design
2001
Textile Design
1997
Graphic Design
2009
Illustration
1985
Futures Design
2021
Architecture
1988
Textile Design
1998
Fashion Design
2002
New Media
2000
Cartoonist
2019
Engineering Design
2007
Landscape Design
2019
Landscape Design
2012
Graphic Design
2014
Exhibitions
1974
Furniture Design
1978
Graphic Design
2005
TV Production Design
1991
Artificial Intelligence Design
2021
Engineering Design
1993
General Design
2004
Product Design
2008
Interior Design
2009
Graphic Design
1997
Furniture Design
2004
Graphic Design
2005
Sound Design
2023
Fashion Design
2007
Theatre Design
1999
Fashion Design
2009
Engineering Design
2005
Product Design
2003
Fashion Design
1988
Speculative Design
2022
Interior Design
1991
Textile Design
1989
Millinery
2009
Interior Design
2007
Textile Design
2008
Furniture Design
1990
Engineering Design
2001
Graphic Design
1994
Graphic Design + Caricature
1999
Ceramics + Glass
1995
Product Design
2008
Film + TV Graphics
1982
Product Design
2003
Design of Art
2019
Structural Engineering Design
2004
Designing with Light
2012
Interior Design
2005
Graphic Design
2004
Product + Furniture Design
2019
Graphic Design
1987
Theatre Design
2004
Production Design
2006
Engineering Design
1989
Illustration
2013
Furniture Design
2001
Communication Design
2017
Theatre + Film Design
1996
General Design
2006
Textile Design
2015
Furniture Design
2007
Animation
2006
Engineering Design
2012
Architecture
2005
Engineering Design
2006
Graphic Design
2015
Landscape Design
2012
Product Design
2008
Costume Design
2013
Critical Design
2021
Environmental Design
2017
Textile Design
2011
Fashion + Textiles
1976
Engineering Design
1997
Product Design
1999
Illustration
1989
Graphic Design
2011
Illustration
1989
Graphic Design
2006
Sustainable Design
2021
Fashion Design
1991
Architecture
2005
Fashion Design
2014
Service Design
2018
Engineering Design
2014
Product Design
1986
New Media Design
2022
Interaction Design
2007
Jewellery Design
2010
Ecological Design
2021
Architecture
2012
Landscape Architecture
2009
Graphic Design
2021
Architecture
2005
Structural Engineering Design
1998
Graphic Design
2011
Furniture Design
2003
Designing with Light
2013
Engineering Design
2013
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