Photo“Basically, for me, if a word was a beautiful word, it wasn’t the sound of the word that intrigued me but the look of the word,” Mr. Peckolick (pronounced PECK-oh-lick) told The Huffington Post in 2015. “I never knew anything about design or graphics or any of those fancy words,” Mr. Peckolick recalled in 2015. “I explained to him,” he recalled, “that I was kicked out of art school because I couldn’t draw very well. Mr. Peckolick was the author of several books, including “Teaching Type to Talk” (2013), and illustrated a number of others. “When you are working for a graphic design client, you are solving the client’s problem,” Mr. Peckolick said.

Source: New York Times August 09, 2017 19:38 UTC