The Albin O.Kuhn Library Gallery presents "Typographically Speaking: The Art ofMatthew Carter" through December 6. Organized by the Library Gallery with guest curator Margaret Re, assistant professor of visual arts, the exhibition will examine the significant contributions of Matthew Carter to the field of visualcommunications.

Carter is one of the pre-eminent type designers of the 20th century and a historian of printing. His career has encompassed the typographical revolution that evolved from working with the Enschedé printing house, where he learned how to cut metal type, to Carter & Cone, one of the first independent digital typefoundries. Typefaces to his credit include ITC Galliard, ranked as one of the most significant design contributions of the twentieth-century and Verdana, likely to be ranked as one of the most significant design contributions of the twenty-first century.

Typographically Speaking has received major funding from the NationalEndowment for the Arts. Additional support has been provided by an artsprogram grant from the Maryland State Arts Council, the Baltimore CountyCommission on Arts and Sciences, AIGA Baltimore, the Friends of the Library& Gallery, and Carol Twombly. At UMBC, support has been provided theDepartment of Visual Arts, the Graduate School, Special Sessions PolicyCommittee, and the Humanities Forum.

The exhibition has been designed to serve as both an introduction toCarter's work and to the breadth and range of his typefaces, as well as avisual document of how his typographic innovations have influenced the stateof visual communications. The core of the exhibition presents Carter's work with type panels selected from his own archive. Twenty-eight panels document the wide range of Carter's typefaces, some well-known and familiar, such as Bell Centennial, ITC Galliard, ITC Charter, Mantinia, and Miller, and others less so, such as Airport, National Geographic Caption, Elephant, and Olympian.

For more information about the exhibition, contact the Gallery at x52270, orvisit either the online arts calendar or the online press release.