Stanley Morrison

Artist: Stanley Morrison
Title: Times New Roman
Date: 1932
Movement: International Style

Stanley Morrison is a well-known English typographer and designer who worked for many different journal and paper companies from the 1920's to the 60's. In 1931, while working at the The Times newspaper, he was commissioned to come up with a new typeface that would be easier to read. Morrison, along with graphic artist Victor Lardent, developed the typeface Times New Roman, and was first used by the paper in 1932.