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Notables

KRIS HOLMES ’72

The calligraphy and lettering of Kris Holmes ’72 have appeared in numerous publications, and her work has been exhibited at SIGGRAPH, Mills College, and the Rhode Island School of Design, and is in the permanent collection of the Klingspor Museum, Germany, and the Melbert B. Cary Collection of the Rochester Institute of Technology. Her types are also in the Musée du Louvre, Paris (where they are used for exit signs). More than twelve million copies of her typeface Apple Chancery, based on the italic handwriting taught by Reynolds and Palladino, have been distributed. Her other type designs include Isadora script, Sierra, Apple Textile, Apple Capitals, and the TrueType versions of Apple New York, Monaco, Geneva, and Chicago. Holmes has also designed Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Arabic, Thai, and Devanagari (Sanskrit) types, as well as phonetic fonts for native American languages. She studied lettering with Ed Benguiat and calligraphy and type design with Hermann Zapf and has taught letter design and type courses at Portland State University, the Portland Museum Art School, Rhode Island School of Design, Santa Monica College, and the Otis College of Art.

JOHN LAURSEN ’67

Designer and typographer John Laursen began his career designing and producing books, posters, and letterpress broadsides. Today art catalogues and books of photography and history continue to be a large part of his work, which now includes designing architectural media for public art installations. Laursen’s clients are primarily publishers and nonprofit organizations focused on the arts, education, history, and the environment. He has exhibited at the Sally Judd Gallery, the Oregon College of Art and Craft, the Fountain Gallery, the Pacific Northwest College of Art, the Oregon Historical Society, the Hanson Howard Gallery in Ashland, and the Davidson Gallery in Seattle. Current projects include the Oregon Holocaust Memorial; the Columbine Memorial in Littleton, Colorado; and Portland’s Walk of the Heroines, a park to honor women and their contributions to the community.

lee littlewood imageLEE LITTLEWOOD ’68

Littlewood’s commercial sign shop, Lee’s Better Letters, has been in business since 1973. Gilding of all sorts is a major preoccupation of his shop, and Littlewood has worked on highly visible projects ranging from the Joan of Arc statue in Portland to historic buildings, concert halls, theaters, and restaurants. After Reed Littlewood studied design and lettering at the Museum Art School in Portland. He has taught many classes and workshops (“too many times to remember”) in lettering, layout, and manuscript gilding since 1972 for groups that include the Signpainter’s Union, the Graphic ArtsGuild, and the Society of Gilders in New York City.

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