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Greetings && Assignment Reminder

I look forward to seeing your 3-5 articles ideas, as well as a link to your critical evaluation of an existing Wikipedia article related to the class with suggestions for improving it on the article's discussion page. You can post those under this comment (make sure to add a semicolon to indent your comment to the right). Once you have posted these, please be sure to let me know on my talk page in the section I set up for these two assignments.--Theredproject (talk) 21:09, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

Topic Summaries

Vincent Figgins - Born in Britain, he was an apprentice to Joseph Jackson. After Jackson’s death he was unable to buy Jackson’s foundry, and it was purchased by William Caslon. Rather then work for Carlson, Figgins opened his own foundry shortly after. His most influential typeface was Monotype Ionic, created in 1821, which became widely used for body text by the newspaper industry. It was the model for many twentieth century newspaper typefaces. He is credited with the design of the first slab-serif or Egyptian typeface, which he released under the name Antique in 1815, on which Egiziano Black was based.