Chris Dickman (bio)

I have a confession: one of my secret passions is Bézier curves. You know, the ones first developed in 1959 by Paul de Casteljau and later named after French engineer Pierre Bézier, who employed them in his work as a designer for the Renault car company. For the first generation of digital designers in the 1980s, Bézier curves were what constituted their work, since Adobe Illustrator and PostScript fonts relied on these for the outlines of both graphical elements and type.