Michael Stipe and Chris Bilheimer have actually been developing all of the art and design for R.E.M. together for 15 years. Their work together has amassed 3 Grammy elections for Best Plan Style and offered more than 15 million copies global. Both attended the arts program at the University of Georgia. Michael Stipe, vocalist and lyricist, formed R.E.M. in 1980. Bilheimer began working with the band in 1994. While continuing to sing with R.E.M., Stipe is also a devoted photographer and movie producer. Bilheimer continues to operate in the music market, art directing bands such as Green Day and Weezer.

From Neil Summerour:

From time to time, Chris would approach me with technical problems relating to the build of fonts for the numerous projects he was working on. Throughout the years, I have actually been able to aid with some terrific work for R.E.M. and Green Day. I eventually approached Chris, asking him to release these to the general public ... in each case, the typefaces would need significant engineering, production of missing glyphs and diacritics to make the providing preferred worldwide-- I was more than happy to do this in order to make these available. 3 typefaces were chosen for the collection. Each are texturally distinct and fantastic representations of the kinetic and interpretative qualities type, design and music can produce.

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