Rick Cusick
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Rick Cusick is an American lettering artist, calligrapher, type designer and book designer.
Cusick began his lettering career designing illuminated signs for Ad/Art, Inc. in his hometown of Stockton, California, followed by study at Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles, where lettering artist Mortimer Leach was among his teachers. Since 1971, he has worked in lettering and typographic design and as a book designer for Hallmark Cards, in Kansas City, Missouri. He has designed books, journals, posters, brochures, packaging, logos, cards, giftwrap and fonts. As a lettering studio manager, his duties include overseeing font development. He has designed several proprietary typefaces for Hallmark that are used on a range of products, such as greeting cards, books, films and packaging.[1]
Cusick also freelances calligraphy, lettering and design projects and has done a wide variety of work, from Las Vegas signage to a 17 ft (5.2 m) long biblical quotation for the Community of Christ's headquarters, Independence Temple, designed by the renowned architect, Gyo Obata.
Nyx is an Adobe Original stencil font created by Cusick and released by Adobe Systems in 1997.[2] It is named after Cusick's muse, Nyx, the Greek goddess of night.
From 1984 to 1990, Cusick taught typography and publication design at the University of Kansas. He has taught numerous workshops worldwide, including a five-day workshop for the Schreibwerkstatt in Offenbach, Germany.[3] He has lectured at Kansas City Art Institute, Indiana Central University, Art Directors Club of El Paso, New York Society of Scribes, Los Angeles Society for Calligraphy, TypeCon 2003 and more.
Cusick has judged numerous lettering and type contests, including TDC2, 2005 type design contest.[4]
