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June Shinʼs Story
I was first introduced to the Daniel Berkeley Updike Collection on the History of Print as a Rhode Island School of Design MFA student in professor and designer Cyrus Highsmith’s typeface design class. Ever since, I have found a seemingly endless source for conducting my meticulous research and extremely detailed work, first as a student ...
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