John Hudson elected Vice President
The Board of ATypI has elected John Hudson to the position of Vice President of the Association. This follows from his election to the Board by the membership at the Annual General Meeting in Prague, on 3 October 2003, for a term of three years.
Posted on 07 November 2004 by Cynthia Batty, West New York, New Jersey
West New York, 4 November, 2004: The Board of Directors of the Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI) is pleased to announce the election of John Hudson to the position of Vice President of the Association. This follows from his election to the Board by the membership at the Annual General Meeting in Prague, on 3 October 2003, for a term of three years.
He was elected to the position of Vice President by his Board colleagues on 2 November 2003, and will occupy this post for the remainder of his term.
ATypI’s President, Jean François Porchez, said, “I am very happy to have John as the Vice President of our Association. His energy and commitment to ATypI, exemplified by his organization of the Vancouver conference in 2003, and to the type industry in general, are well-known in our community, and I know he will make an important contribution in this role.”
John Hudson is a type designer and co-founder of Tiro Typeworks, Vancouver. Since 1997, he has specialized in the design and development of custom fonts for multilingual computing. Tiro Typeworks’ clients include Microsoft, Adobe, Apple and Linotype Library, as well as many smaller companies and scholarly communities. Among Tiro’s typefaces are designs for Cherokee, Cyrillic, Greek, Ethiopic, Hebrew, Inuktitut, Latin and other languages, and include several international award winners. In addition to his type design activities, John writes and lectures on font technology issues.
John was the program planner for the well-regarded 2003 ATypI conference in Vancouver, and remarked of the board elections in Prague: “This election also marks the 10th anniversary of the founding of Tiro Typeworks, so its good opportunity to give something back to the type community by being deeply involved into the ATypI board.”
About ATypI: Association Typographique Internationale is the premier worldwide organization dedicated to type and typography. Founded in 1957, ATypI provides the structure for communication, information, education and action within the international type community. ATypI annual conferences are attended by delegates from more than 40 countries. Recent Conferences have been held in Prague (2004), Vancouver (2003), Rome (2002) and Copenhagen (2001), and the 2005 conference will be held in Helsinki. The Board of Directors are: Jean-François Porchez (President), John Hudson (Vice President), Mark Barratt, John D. Berry, Henrik Birkvig, Roger Black, Clive Bruton, Ted Harrison, Gerry Leonidas, Thomas Phinney, Fiona Ross, Erik Spiekermann, Adam Twardoch, Pavel Zelenka, and Maxim Zhukov.