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 ’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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