About ITC Bodoni Brush
ITC Bodoni Brush is a fanciful design suitable for publicity posters and other designs requiring instant impact. It was released in 1996 and was designed by Englishman John Viner. Viner learned the craft of brush lettering during the late 1940’s while he was working at a firm that produced posters for the Gaumont and Odeon cinema circuits. After serving in the Royal Air Force, he moved to London and worked as a lettering and general artist in print studios which produced artwork for major advertising agencies. In the mid-1950’s, he worked for a time at London’s Savoy Hotel as a wine order clerk. It was his good fortune that the wine and in-house print departments were run by the same manager, and he was asked to produce posters to promote performances of the Savoy Cabaret. For this work he devised a style of brush lettering based freely on the original Bodoni typeface. |
