It is with sadness that we say goodbye to our dear friend, TDC Medalist and former President, Ed Benguiat, who died on October 15, at age 92.Įd was the designer of over 600 typefaces, including Tiffany, Bookman, Panache, Souvenir, Edwardian Script, and the eponymous Benguiat and Benguiat Gothic, as well as countless logotypes, for films like Planet of the Apes, Super Fly, and Guns of Navarone, and designs or redesigns for Esquire, The New York Times, Playboy, McCall’s, Reader’s Digest, Photography, Look, Sports Illustrated, The Star-Ledger, The San Diego Tribune, AT&T, A&E, Coke, Estée Lauder, Ford and many more.īorn in Brooklyn, Ed earned a BA degree in Music, and was, at one time a successful progressive jazz percussionist, playing with the likes of Stan Kenton and Woody Herman on 52nd Street, then called “Swing Street” in New York City.
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