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Month: November 2021

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Design Hero: Fred Gehrke, creator of the first football helmet logo

Posted on April 29, 2022 by jroshell

I’m finishing up a new font, and decided to test it out on social media by telling the story of one of my first design heroes: Fred Gehrke, who designed the first football helmet logo. He’s a hero in my mind because he saw a cool possibility where nobody else did, and then just went […]

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