The Epica Award is Europe’s leading creative award. The 2006 Gold winner in the Publications category was Taylor Lane for “Studio Pin-Ups”, a typographical conquering of the pin-up calendar.
Here is Miss Bembo:
As you can imagine in this day and age it was controversial, though it really has much more to do with creativity than controversy, and it was good for business creating a 25% increase in turnover from existing and new clients.
and over at Typophile.com there is an ongoing discussion to come up with a list of the 20 most important type designers of all time. Guaranteed interesting thread.
Why not pick the top 26 instead of the top 20, one for each letter of the alphabet?
pin-up lead via Boing Boing