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Calligraphy by Kris Holmes

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Remembering Jack Stauffacher

Remembering Jack Stauffacher

TYPOGRAPHIC WORKSHOP 17 I learned typography from Jack Stauffacher in the fall of 1967. He taught at the San Francisco Art Institute in Typographic Workshop 17, a basement room off one of the corridors in the old concrete buildings that ramble down the slope of Chestnut Street on Russian Hill. Although I’ve been a working typographer and a teacher of typography for five decades, Jack’s was the only course in typography I ever took. When I think back to my first typographic autumn studying “the black art” with Jack, I wonder how he managed to teach in such a short...

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Designing a New Greek Type

From Fine Print Click thumbnail for full size image.

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Original Drawing of Lucida Calligraphy

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History of the Alphabet

This illustration was done for an article in Scientific American by Charles Bigelow and Donald Day. August 1983. 

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