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Queen’s service medal for font designer Joseph Churchward

The 2010 Queen’s Birthday Honours list included Samoan-born font designer Joseph Churchward. Since the 1960s, Churchward has hand-created over 570 typefaces (fonts), the greatest number designed by any individual in the world. Click on the image to watch the video interview with Churchward on TVNZ: As a way of documentingRead more

2010-06-08
By: Safua Akeli
On: 8 Jun 2010
In: History, Pacific

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