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4 unusual facts about Andrew Ashton


Andrew Ashton

FontLab, the leading developer and manufacturer of software for creating digital typefaces, from entry level to professional, have been sufficiently interested in his work to offer him sponsorship through the offices of the President, Ted Harrison.

Although his book designs are rarely acknowledged (common UK practice) significant works for endpapers, title pages or page illustrations may be credited on the imprint page, or in the acknowledgements by the author, and such entries can be found in books by authors such as Paullina Simons, Janny Wurts, James Twining, Tracy Chevalier, Barbara Erskine and Robin Hobb (Megan Lindholm).

His most famous design is for The Dangerous Book for Boys, for which he co-won the 2007 Stora Enso Design and Production award with Nicole Abel (Production) at the British Book Industry Awards.

Recent maps have included a modern vector map with illustrations for Road to Paradise by Paullina Simons, an integrated map which combines drawing and modern vector image manipulation for the UK publication of Ice Princess by Camilla Lackberg, and hand-drawn ones for Robin Hobb and George RR Martin.



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