Ed Benguiat, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Ed Benguiat

American type designer

Date of Birth: 27-Oct-1927

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States

Profession: type designer, graphic designer, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Ed Benguiat (; born Ephram Edward Benguiat, October 27, 1927) is an American typographer and lettering artist.
He has crafted over 600 typeface designs including Tiffany, Bookman, Panache, Souvenir, Edwardian Script, and the eponymous Benguiat and Benguiat Gothic. He is also known for his designs or redesigns of the logotypes 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 others.
Other notable examples of Benguiat’s work are the logotypes for the original Planet of the Apes film, Super Fly, The Guns of Navarone, and Stranger Things.
Ed Benguiat was one of the most prolific lettering artists and became typographic design director at Photo-Lettering, known as PLINC.
Ed Benguiat was inducted into the Art Directors Hall of Fame in 2000.
In 1961 he began teaching at the School of Visual Arts in his native New York and continues to work there.